Famous Quotes / Saul Bellow
25 Quotations by Saul Bellow
- 1. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
- 2. A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most ...
- 3. All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
- 4. Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
- 5. Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately ...
- 6. As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if ...
- 7. California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me ...
- 8. Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hol ...
- 9. Everyone knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing you hold ...
- 10. Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
- 11. I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own ...
- 12. I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
- 13. In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
- 14. In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find be ...
- 15. Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you ar ...
- 16. She was what we used to call a suicide blond - dyed by her own hand.
- 17. Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity ...
- 18. The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in Am ...
- 19. the sources of the truest truths are inevitably profoundly personal.
- 20. There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for ins ...