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
We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.
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?
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.
... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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.
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.
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.