Quote

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

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
Children
Grown
Love
Stranger
Ahead
Gave
Loved
Game
Games
Back
Strangers

More quotes by 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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
Bernard Malamud
Image
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
Bernard Malamud
Image
Where to look if you've lost your mind?
Bernard Malamud
Image
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
Bernard Malamud
Image
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
Bernard Malamud
Image
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
Bernard Malamud
Image
One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
Bernard Malamud
Image
You see in others who you are.
Bernard Malamud
Image
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else.
Bernard Malamud
Image
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
Bernard Malamud
Image
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
Bernard Malamud
Image
We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is most of us have to be strangers.
Bernard Malamud
Image
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
Bernard Malamud
Image
Politics isn't in my nature.
Bernard Malamud
Image
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Bernard Malamud
Image
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.
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
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
Bernard Malamud
Image
When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
Bernard Malamud