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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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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.
Bernard Malamud
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
Where to look if you've lost your mind?
Bernard Malamud
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.
Bernard Malamud
It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'
Bernard Malamud
I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
Bernard Malamud
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.
Bernard Malamud
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
Bernard Malamud
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
Bernard Malamud
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
Bernard Malamud
I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
Bernard Malamud
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
Bernard Malamud
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Bernard Malamud
If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
Bernard Malamud
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
Bernard Malamud
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.
Bernard Malamud
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
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
Bernard Malamud
There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
Bernard Malamud
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
Bernard Malamud