Creative Quotations from . . .
Bernard Malamud
(1914-1986) born on
Apr 26
US "novelist, short-story writer". He made parables out of Jewish immigrant life.
 
   
F
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye."

R
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
A
"It was all those biographies in me yelling, "We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.""
N
"Once you've got some words looking back at you, you can take two or three or throw them away and look for others."
K
Stay with it. . . ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
R: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
A: ""On how "Dublin's Lives," resulted from a lifetime of reading biographies, "W," 16 Feb 1979."
N: "On the task of beginning, recalled on his death 18 Mar 1986."
K: On writing.



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