Quotes by Bernard Malamud

“When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.”

“Where to look if you've lost your mind?”

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself.", September 14, 1958)”

“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.”

“It was a strange thing about people- they could look the same but be different.”

“They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men.”

“Experience makes good people better." She was staring at the lake. "How does it do that?" "Through their suffering." "I had enough of that," he said in disgust. "We have two lives, Roy, the life we...”

“I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a m...”

“Charity you can give even when you haven't got.”

“A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.”

“I fix what's broken - except in the heart.”

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

“The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.”

“When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.”

“Where to look if you've lost your mind?”

“They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men.”

“It was a strange thing about people- they could look the same but be different.”

“Experience makes good people better." She was staring at the lake. "How does it do that?" "Through their suffering." "I had enough of that," he said in disgust. "We have two lives, Roy, the life we...”

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying it”

“I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a m...”