Canadian-American writer (1915-2005)
Well I gave a lot of time to women and if I had my time again I don't think I would do it that way. I was letting my neurosis monopolise my life.
SAUL BELLOW
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The Guardian, Sep. 10, 1997
The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.
SAUL BELLOW
Mr. Sammler's Planet
I am quite prepared to admit that being habitual liars and self-deluders, we have good cause to fear the truth, but I'm not at all ready to stop hoping. There may be some truths that are, after all, our friends in the universe.
SAUL BELLOW
The Paris Review, winter 1966
We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.
SAUL BELLOW
"A Second Half Life,", It All Adds Up
A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
SAUL BELLOW
attributed, The Hidden Writer
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
SAUL BELLOW
attributed, Something About the Author