Classic Quotes by Saul Bellow

1915-2005

Canadian writer

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.

Any artist should be grateful for a nanve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.