Creative Quotations from Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Bernard Malamud
(1914-1986) born on Apr 26

US "novelist, short-story writer". He made parables out of Jewish immigrant life.

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

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

"It was all those biographies in me yelling, "We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.""

"Once you've got some words looking back at you, you can take two or three or throw them away and look for others."

Stay with it. . . ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
R:	"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
A:	""On how "Dublin's Lives," resulted from a lifetime of reading biographies, "W," 16 Feb 1979."
N:	"On the task of beginning, recalled on his death 18 Mar 1986."
K:	On writing.