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
There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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.
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
... 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.
You can't eat language but it eases thirst.
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.