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

Quote by Saul Bellow

Topics: Writing Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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......

What is art but a way of seeing?

What is art but a way of seeing?

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

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...

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...

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 good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

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

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...

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...