• 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.

  Bernard Malamud
  American novelist
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. substitute
2. narrative
3. painter
4. painted
5. people
6. chairs

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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. by : Bernard Malamud

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