Quotes by : Bernard Malamud

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself.", September 14, 1958)

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

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

It was a strange thing about people- they could look the same but be different.

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all,....

They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for....

Where to look if you've lost your mind?

Charity you can give even when you haven't got.

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

If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his....