Bernard Malamud
Quotes
“In writing I had to say what had happened to me, yet present it as though it had been magically revealed.”
Bernard Malamud
“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.”
Don DeLillo
“The heart of the story is usually a place to arrive at, not a place to begin.”
Tracy Kidder
“I think that the nonfiction writer’s fundamental job is to make what is true believable.”
Tracy Kidder
“There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“[The writer] cannot put himself today in the service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.”
Albert Camus
“[A]lmost all good artists are being worked through with forces that they’re not quite aware of. They are transmitters of sensitivities that they’re not aware of having, of forces that are in the air at the time. I’ve done a lot of things that I’m surprised at now which show a lot of knowledge that I didn’t have or knew I had. I can now learn something from my own pictures.”
Walker Evans