A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
Bernard Malamud

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
Bernard Malamud

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

Life is a tragedy full of joy.
Bernard Malamud

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Bernard Malamud

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
Bernard Malamud

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.
Bernard Malamud

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

We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
Bernard Malamud

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