We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
BERNARD MALAMUDIf your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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