Bernard Malamud quotes

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall. (Bernard Malamud)
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness. View quote
Bernard Malamud
Without heroes, we're all plain people, and don't know how far we can go. View quote
Bernard Malamud
Life is a tragedy full of joy. View quote
Bernard Malamud
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. View quote
Bernard Malamud
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are. View quote
Bernard Malamud
If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you. View quote
Bernard Malamud
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. View quote
Bernard Malamud
I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own. View quote
Bernard Malamud
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course. View quote
Bernard Malamud
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering. (Bernard Malamud)
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought. View quote
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly. View quote
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye. View quote
Bernard Malamud
I fix what's broken - except in the heart. View quote
Bernard Malamud
It was all those biographies in me yelling, "We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.”. View quote
Bernard Malamud
I think I said "All men are Jews except they don't know it." I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men. View quote
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One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction. View quote
Bernard Malamud
If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station. View quote
Bernard Malamud
There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them. View quote
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Where to look if you've lost your mind? (Bernard Malamud)
When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me. View quote
Bernard Malamud
I would write a book, or a short story, 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. View quote
Bernard Malamud
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself." (Interview,, September 14, 1958) View quote
Bernard Malamud
Levin wanted friendship and got friendliness; he wanted steak and they offered spam. View quote
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