143 Quotes by Bernard Malamud

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

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

When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered--sometimes it seemed to take forever--went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.

I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

Would you say you have a "philosophy" Of your own? If so what is it?''If I have it's all skin and bones...If I have any philosophy...it's that life could be better than it is.

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

Lei si recava in biblioteca in media due volte a settimana, prendendo solo un libro o due per volta, perché ritornare a chiederne un altro era una delle sue poche gioie. Anche nei momenti in cui si sentiva più sola le piaceva trovarsi in mezzo ai libri, sebbene qualche volta fosse deprimente vedere il numero dei volumi che non aveva ancora letto.