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
It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.
Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.
People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
What is art but a way of seeing?
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
There is something terribly nervous-making about a modern existence. For one thing, it's all the thinking we have to do and all the judgments we have to make. It's the price of freedom: make the judgments, make the mental calls,
She was what we used to call a suicide blond - dyed by her own hand.
reality comes from giving an account of yourself. (Augie March)
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance.
Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?
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.
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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.