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

Quote by Saul Bellow

Topics: Writing Quotes

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

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

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......

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...

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...

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

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

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

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

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

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...

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

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...

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.

What is art but a way of seeing?

What is art but a way of seeing?

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

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

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

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...

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 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...

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...

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...