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The great thing about writing...

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

I write a book at least three...

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

You write by sitting down and...

You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

Prufrock had measured out his...

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

Space plus whatever you feel ...

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

You can't eat language but it...

You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

It was all those biographies ...

It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

We didn't starve but nobody a...

We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

We have two lives, the life w...

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

Of course it would cost somet...

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.

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

... it's possible to let love...

... 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.

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

No use fanning up hot coals w...

No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

What suffering has taught me ...

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

Some men are by nature explor...

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?

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

As long as a man stays alive ...

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

I love metaphor. It provides ...

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

You could not pity anything i...

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

A man is an island in the onl...

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.

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

I don't think you can do anyt...

I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

The past exudes legend: one ca...

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

Bernard Malamud 90 quotes

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