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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

Bernard Malamud

You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Adventure Moon Stars
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
BERNARD MALAMUD

Book Firsts Ideas
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Biography Done Want Yelling
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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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled

Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

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