You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
BERNARD MALAMUDA man had to learn, it was his nature.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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