Inspirational Quotes by Bernard Malamud

You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

— Bernard Malamud

We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was

— Bernard Malamud

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of…

— Bernard Malamud

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

— Bernard Malamud

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

— Bernard Malamud

... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.

— Bernard Malamud

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

— Bernard Malamud

You see in others who you are.

— Bernard Malamud

“Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far it is we can go.”

— Bernard Malamud

Politics isn't in my nature.

— Bernard Malamud

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

— Bernard Malamud

Nationality isn't soul ...

— Bernard Malamud

How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?

— Bernard Malamud

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

— Bernard Malamud

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

— Bernard Malamud

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

— Bernard Malamud

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

— Bernard Malamud

If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.

— Bernard Malamud

“There comes a time in a (wo)man's life when to get where (s)he has to -- if there are no doors or…

— Bernard Malamud

All men are Jews, though few men know it.

— Bernard Malamud

If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

— Bernard Malamud

Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

— Bernard Malamud