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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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

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...

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...

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 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...

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You...

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You...

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...

What is art but a way of seeing?

What is art but a way of seeing?

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...

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...

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...

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever......

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever......

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...

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...

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...

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word...

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word...

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading