I think I said "All men are Jews except they don't know it." I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understan… - Bernard Malamud

… keep in mind that the purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

If I may, I would at this point urge young writers not to be too much concerned with the vagaries of the marketplace. Not everyone can make a first-rate living as a writer, but a writer who is serious and responsible about his work, and life, will probably find a way to earn a decent living, if he or she writes well. A good writer will be strengthened by his good writing at a time, let us say, of the resurgence of ignorance in our culture. I think I have been saying that the writer must never compromise with what is best in him in a world defined as free.

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