Bernard Malamud Quotes


"Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go."
- Bernard Malamud
(Related: People, Heroes)

"We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that."
- Bernard Malamud
(Related: Life)

"Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are."
- Bernard Malamud
(Related: Life)

"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
(Related: Life, Time, Man, Windows)

"The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly."
- Bernard Malamud
(Related: Idea)

"Life is a tragedy full of joy."
- Bernard Malamud
(Related: Life, Joy, Tragedy)

"I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought."
- Bernard Malamud
(Related: Love, Work, Flowers, Language)

"A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye."
- Bernard Malamud
(Related: Eye, Writer)

"Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing."
- Bernard Malamud
(Related: Writing)