All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

Quote by Saul Bellow

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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...

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...

What is art but a way of seeing?

What is art but a way of seeing?

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

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

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...

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.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

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...

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them...

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them...

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...

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on...

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on...

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...

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones...

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones...

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended...

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended...

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not...

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not...

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need...

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need...

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one...

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one...