Bellow Quotes

9 quotes from 7 authors

If you’ve ever felt the urge to shout your truth, these nine excerpts capture that raw, vocal energy. Each writer offers a fresh angle on raising one’s voice, making this a compact yet vivid snapshot of the power behind a well‑placed bellow.

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“Saul Bellow: Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are able to see anything.”

Christopher Hitchens

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The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

Leslie Fiedler

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Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

Leslie Fiedler

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Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe…

Cynthia Ozick

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I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to…

Cynthia Ozick

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I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small…

George Grosz

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“The late literary giant Saul Bellow would call someone with the ability to spot important details among noise a “first-class noticer.” This…

Shane Snow

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At one point I would read nothing that was not by the great American Jews - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - which…

Kevin Barry

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“We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering…

Pete Townshend

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