The Tenants Quotes

“Mourning died slowly. It never fully dies for something truly loved.”
― Bernard Malamud, The Tenants

“I write it right because I revise so often. What I say is unrevised and often wrong. Then he thought, I write about love because I know so little about it.”
― Bernard Malamud, The Tenants: A Novel

“He felt sick to death of the endless, uncompleted, beastly book, the discipline of writing, the overdedicated, ultimately limited, writer’s life.”
― Bernard Malamud, The Tenants: A Novel

“If you’ve been writing a book for ten years time adds time to each word; they weigh like rocks—the weight of waiting for the end, to become the book.”
― Bernard Malamud, The Tenants: A Novel

“And here’s something from Coleridge: ‘Nothing can permanently please which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so and not otherwise.”
― Bernard Malamud, The Tenants: A Novel

“If some white prick tears a piece of black skin off your ass every day, when somebody says, ‘Sit down,’ it’s gonna mean two different things to me and you, and that’s why black fiction has got to be different than white. The words make it different because the experience does.”
― Bernard Malamud, The Tenants: A Novel

“The world is full of invisible people stalking people they don’t know.”
― Bernard Malamud, The Tenants: A Novel

“Home is where my book is.”
― Bernard Malamud, The Tenants: A Novel

“لسر با خود فکر کرد، ‌درست می‌نویسم ولی غلط به زبان می‌آورم. درست می‌نویسم چون چندین بار اصلاحش می‌کنم. چیزی که به زبان می‌آورم اصلاح نشده و اغلب اشتباه است. سپس با خود اندیشید، درباره عشق می‌نویسم چون چیز زیادی در موردش نمی‌دانم.”
― Bernard Malamud, The Tenants