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
For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something ...
You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.