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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?

Bernard Malamud

If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track
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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Circles Cutting Experts
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
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
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
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
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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Long Men Perseverance
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
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

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