Bernard Malamud Quotes

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

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

No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.