Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

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

Frivolous Leisure

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

BERNARD MALAMUD

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

BERNARD MALAMUD

Sadness

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

BERNARD MALAMUD

Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

BERNARD MALAMUD

Reform Revision

If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

BERNARD MALAMUD

Stations Train

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.

BERNARD MALAMUD

Cracks Real