Bernard Malamud

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

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

Where to look if youve lost your mind

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

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

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

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

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

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.

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

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

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

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