574 Quotes by Saul Bellow

  • Author Saul Bellow
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    I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it.

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    The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

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    The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

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