You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
BERNARD MALAMUDAs long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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