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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

Bernard Malamud

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
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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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Adventure Moon Stars
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
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
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Dark Experiences Mystical Self

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