Bernard Malamud Quotes

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• It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does…
• We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was
• The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
• One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
• I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
• A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
• There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
• We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.
• When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
• Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge…
• It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'
• All men are Jews, though few men know it.
• If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
• Life is a tragedy full of joy.
• Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
• First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
• Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
• A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
• The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
• Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to…

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