There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“A bit of ideology and being up to date is most apropos,” Chekhov said—tongue in cheek, I suspect. In a more serious… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should he more widely read.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“But now the emphasis has shifted to making it. People have surrendered their personal moral objectives to government or schools or psychologists. It’s a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
