Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
BERNARD MALAMUDI am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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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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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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