Quotes by Bernard Malamud

• If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.
• Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
• We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
• Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
• There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
• The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
• Life is a tragedy full of joy.
• I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
• A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
• Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
• The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.