Quote

If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

Bernard Malamud

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Every
Station
Stations
Track
Train
Wrong
Come

More quotes by Bernard Malamud

Image
... 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.
Bernard Malamud
Image
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
Bernard Malamud
Image
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
Bernard Malamud
Image
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
Bernard Malamud
Image
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
Bernard Malamud
Image
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Bernard Malamud
Image
One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
Bernard Malamud
Image
Where to look if you've lost your mind?
Bernard Malamud
Image
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
Bernard Malamud
Image
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.
Bernard Malamud
Image
It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'
Bernard Malamud
Image
Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it.'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
Bernard Malamud
Image
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
Bernard Malamud
Image
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
Bernard Malamud
Image
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
Bernard Malamud
Image
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
Bernard Malamud
Image
I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.
Bernard Malamud
Image
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.
Bernard Malamud
Image
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
Bernard Malamud
Image
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
Bernard Malamud