“The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.”
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Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Norman Mailer and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel *The Natural* was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel *The Fixer* (also filmed), about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
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“The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.”
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“If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.”
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“I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.”
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“If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.”
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“Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.”
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“Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.”
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