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
Live or die but don't poison everything.
I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea. That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken.
Guys like you make life easy for some women.
A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?
Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
I must play the instrument I've got.
Let the enemies of life step down.