The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
BERNARD MALAMUDThe wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
BERNARD MALAMUDAll my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
BERNARD MALAMUDI sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
BERNARD MALAMUDI love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
BERNARD MALAMUDWriters who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
BERNARD MALAMUDWe can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
BERNARD MALAMUDI don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
BERNARD MALAMUDYou can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
BERNARD MALAMUDSpace plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
BERNARD MALAMUDWhen I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUDIf 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.
BERNARD MALAMUD… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
BERNARD MALAMUDRevision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
BERNARD MALAMUDHow one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
BERNARD MALAMUDA man had to learn, it was his nature.
BERNARD MALAMUD