Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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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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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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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.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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