A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye. - Bernard Malamud - Quotesmemo.com

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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

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Bernard Malamud

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

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Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

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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. . . . 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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We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

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You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire

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There's something in the cross that says this is not just about my "salvation" but about the "salvation" of all those who suffer injustice and inequality.

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I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.

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