When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. 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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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You see in others who you are.
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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I 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.
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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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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.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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