143 Quotes by Bernard Malamud

One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

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

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else.

How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

You can't eat language but it eases thirst.