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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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.
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.
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.
... 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.
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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.
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.