We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“Leo hurried up to bed and hid under the covers. Under the covers he thought his life through. Although he soon fell… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“So sleep now, without fear for your life, and if you should ever manage to get out of prison, keep in mind… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“Experience makes good people better." She was staring at the lake. "How does it do that?" "Through their suffering." "I had enough… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“We have two lives; the life we learn with and the life we live after that.” — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“Would you say you have a "philosophy" Of your own? If so what is it?' 'If I have it's all skin and… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something ... — 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
“Keep in mind, Yakov Shepsovitch, that if your life is without value, so is mine. If the law does not protect you,… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
