We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
BERNARD MALAMUDWriting is a mode of being. If I write I live.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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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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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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