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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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.
When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
Where to look if you've lost your mind?
If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.
We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was
I fix what's broken - except in the heart.