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
I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.
I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.
Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.
Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.
I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it.
O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.
The best argument is an undeniably good book.
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.
The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
A plan relieves you of the torment of choice.