All Saul Bellow Quotes
- Conquered people tend to be witty. Conquered
- I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. Administrative
- With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept… Accept
- In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down… All
- If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. Expected
- Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. Distant
- Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul. Collective
- There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably… Argument
- There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and… Afternoon
- I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal. Alone
- Live or die but don't poison everything. Death
- I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere,… Anywhere
- It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route. Generosity
- Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings,… Aristotelian
- But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work… Acoustical
- Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already… Actuality
- I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag… Afflicted
- I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die,… Any
- I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his… Altogether
- A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out. Fool