A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
BERNARD MALAMUDWe didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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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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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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