Saul Bellow Quotes
A Canadian-born American writer.
(1915 - 2005)
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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
[Love]
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
[Balanced]
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All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
[Writers And Writing]
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Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
[Decisions]
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
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I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
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I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.
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