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
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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.
There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.
Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something ...
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?
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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.
When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.