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
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
What is art but a way of seeing?
Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.
It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
Well, everybody has a history.
The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.
Death deserves dignity.
... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
But there are things you can't consult anybody about.
A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.
Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.
I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.
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.