black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You see in others who you are.

Bernard Malamud

Related Topics

Identity Who You Are

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Sadness Tragedy Wine
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Character Discipline Writing
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Blame Giving Misery
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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
BERNARD MALAMUD

Believe Both God Stranger
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Boring Live Mode Writing
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Broken Expect Heart
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Clothes Kind Men
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Change Ears World
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Draft Firsts Learn Stories
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Book Fixers Wrong
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Knowledge Littles Sometime
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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Learning Men Nature
Nationality isn’t soul.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Nation Nationality Soul
Politics isn’t in my nature.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Nature Politics Work

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes