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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

Bernard Malamud

The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
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’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
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
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return

Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

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