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

Quote by Saul Bellow

Topics: Writing Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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 good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

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

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own...

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own...

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

Knowledge is nothing else than reflection or mirroring. Knowledge exists in itself only if this...

Knowledge is nothing else than reflection or mirroring. Knowledge exists in itself only if this...

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the...

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the...