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
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?
We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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.
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something ...
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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.
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.
It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'