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

Quote by Saul Bellow

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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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...

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...

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...

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...

What is art but a way of seeing?

What is art but a way of seeing?

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

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...

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

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...

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 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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...