Top 31 Quotes by Saul Bellow

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

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

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

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

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

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

What is art but a way of seeing?

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