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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

Bernard Malamud

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
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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life Live Suffering Two
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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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Biography Done Want Yelling
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing

For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

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