quotes by Saul Bellow

"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."
— Saul Bellow

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

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

"If i'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog."
— Saul Bellow (Herzog (Penguin Classics))

"It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart."
— Saul Bellow

"A writer is a reader moved to emulation."
— Saul Bellow

"“A man is only as good as what he loves”"
— Saul Bellow

"Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day."
— Saul Bellow (Seize the Day)

"Sometimes I wished I could become a shoemaker too."
— Saul Bellow (The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics))

"All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!"
— Saul Bellow (Henderson the Rain King)

"I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists."
— Saul Bellow

"How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.""
— Saul Bellow (The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century))

"I discovered rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgement and to say in his heart of hearts, "To hell with you." "
— Saul Bellow

"I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'"
— Saul Bellow

"Did I say that the world had never had better color? I left something out of account, a limping, crippled consideration which seems to lose ground as you reach beauty and Orizaba flowers, but soon you find it has preceded you."
— Saul Bellow (The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics))

"I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul."
— Saul Bellow (A Theft)

"If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog."
— Saul Bellow

"She was what we used to call a suicide blonde-- dyed by her own hand."
— Saul Bellow

"I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, "to hell with you.""
— Saul Bellow

"Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability."
— Saul Bellow