List of Bernard Malamud Quotes

Space Plus Whatever You Feel Equals More Whatever You Feel, Marvelous For Happiness, God Save You Otherwise.

Reader, I Am Myself The Subject Of My Book; You Would Be Unreasonable To Spend Your Leisure On So Frivolous And So Vain A Matter.

A Man Had To Learn, It Was His Nature.

Overnight Business Could Go Down Enough To Hurt; Yet As A Rule It Slowly Recovered-sometimes It Seemed To Take Forever-went Up, Not High Enough To Be Really Up, Only Not Down.

It Was All Those Biographies In Me Yelling, 'we Want Out. We Want To Tell You What We've Done To You.'

I Fix What's Broken - Except In The Heart.

We're Persecuted In The Most Civilized Languages.

Prufrock Had Measured Out His Life With Measuring Spoons; Dubin, In Books Resurrecting The Lives Of Others.

All My Life I Wanted To Accomplish Something Worthwhile-a Thing People Will Say Took A Little Something.

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.

You Write By Sitting Down And Writing. There's No Particular Time Or Place—you Suit Yourself, Your Nature. How One Works, Assuming He's Disciplined, Doesn't Matter.