If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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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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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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