A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

- Bernard Malamud

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

- Bernard Malamud

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

- Bernard Malamud

We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.

- Bernard Malamud

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

- Bernard Malamud

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

- Bernard Malamud

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

- Bernard Malamud

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

- Bernard Malamud

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

- Bernard Malamud

If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.

- Bernard Malamud