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
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.
Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.
The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow themselves the privilege of ranging freely through social classes and professional specialties. A certain pride in their own experience, perhaps a sense of the property rights of others in their experience, holds them back.
I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.