Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellowwas a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 June 1915
CityLachine, Canada
CountryUnited States of America
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of clichés the first prize.
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
Art has to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.
In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about famine or the blowing up of passenger planes - and we are all aware that we are incapable of reacting appropriately. A guilty consciousness of emotional inadequacy or impotence makes people doubt their own human weight.
If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
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.
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.