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 my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something ...
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.
... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.
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.
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.
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.
(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.
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?