Saul Bellow Quotes

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.

What is art but a way of seeing?

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.

A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.

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 had slid into Southern California.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

I’m glad I haven‘t lived in vain.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.

A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

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 the anesthetic with confidence.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what’s in it – they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

What is art but a way of seeing?

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.

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 the anesthetic with confidence.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

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 had slid into Southern California.