A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself." (Interview, New York Post Magazine , September 14, 1958)” — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge & enhance… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way.… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I for one believe that not enough has been made of the tragedy of the destruction of 6 million Jews. Somebody has… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share
“Leo hurried up to bed and hid under the covers. Under the covers he thought his life through. Although he soon fell asleep he… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea,… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share
“Her face deeply moved him. Why, he could at first not say. It gave him the impression of youth--spring flowers, yet age--a sense of… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share
We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was — Bernard Malamud Copy Share
As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share
“So sleep now, without fear for your life, and if you should ever manage to get out of prison, keep in mind that the… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share
