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Bernard Malamud


  • Feld, the shoemaker, was annoyed that his helper, Sobol, was so insensitive to his reverie that he wouldn't for a minute cease his fanatic pounding at the other bench.

  • From the small crossed window of his room above the stable in the brickyard, Yakov Bok saw people in their long overcoats running somewhere early that morning, everybody in the same direction.

  • I for one believe that not enough has been made of the tragedy of the destruction of 6 million Jews. Somebody has to cry-even if it's a writer, 20 years later.

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

  • Life is a tragedy full of joy.

  • Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

  • The early November street was dark though night had ended, but the wind, to the grocer's surprise, already clawed. It flung his apron into his face as he bent for the two milk cases at the curb. Morris Bober dragged the heavy boxes to the door, panting. A large brown bag of hard rolls stood in the doorway along with the sour-faced, gray-haired Poilisheh huddled there, who wanted one.

  • The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly. . .To write a scene, work up a feeling: ride in on it.

  • 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.

  • They sometimes met on country roads when there were flowers or snow.

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

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