You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

Quote by Saul Bellow

Topics: Writing Quotes

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between...

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between...

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen...

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen...

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business...

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business...

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put...

I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put...

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not...

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not...

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America...

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America...

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was...

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was...

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more...

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more...

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion...

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion...

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief...

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief...

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment. By the kind of intelligence that sees in...

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment. By the kind of intelligence that sees in...

They have a tourniquet on the brain.

They have a tourniquet on the brain.