Quotes from Bernard Malamud

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

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

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.

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

All men are Jews, though few men know it.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

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

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.