Bernard Malamud

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

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

We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

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.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.