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Bernard Malamud

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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People Stories Style
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
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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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
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….
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Book Firsts Ideas
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past

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