574 Quotes by Saul Bellow

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

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

I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.

The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.

We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.

Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.

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