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.
BERNARD MALAMUDYou write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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 can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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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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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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