Bernard Malamud Quotes

I for one believe that not enough has been made of the tragedy of the destruction of 6 million Jews. Somebody has to cry-even if it's a writer, 20 years later.

If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.

It was all those biographies in me yelling, "We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you."

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

Once you've got some words looking back at you, you can take two or three-or throw them away and look for others.

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

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.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

With me, it's story, story, story.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.