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'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.
...I am much better now at ambiguities.
...is the carbon molecule lined with thought?
I am an American – Chicago born.
Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all.
Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?
A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
Live or die but don't poison everything.
Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?
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.