The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
BERNARD MALAMUD
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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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… 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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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You see in others who you are.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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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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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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