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
If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.
All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!
I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
A man is only as good as what he loves.
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.