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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

Bernard Malamud

Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
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 short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

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