Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamudwas an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer, about antisemitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 April 1914
CountryUnited States of America
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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.
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
You see in others who you are.
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.