Writing Quote by Bernard Malamud Download Open image ““I’m an American, I’m a Jew, and I write for all men.”” — Bernard Malamud ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“Just don’t write like a self -hating Jew,” my father is whispering into my ear.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I am not an American of JEWISH faith. I am a JEW. I have been a JEW for a thousand years. Hitler was right… — Stephen Samuel Wise Copy Share Image
“Thus for me, the principal meaning of being a Jew was something people reliably held against me, a barrier to overcome. ” — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“Screw you, you sons of bitches. I may be just a goddamn Jew Red to you, but I'm keeping Jefferson alive!” — I.F. Stone Copy Share Image
“That was offensive on so many levels. You can't just tell someone they look like a Jew.” — Kelley York Copy Share Image
“Besides, if you lump them all together because they're German, how does that makes you any different from the way they lump us all… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“No other ethnic group has even come close to matching the abilities and accomplishments of Jews.” — H.W. Charles Copy Share Image
Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue -… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
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 Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
