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












I am not an ornithologist—I am a bird.
More Saul Bellow quotes
"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.
"The truth is we've not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience.
"Our society like decadent Rome has turned into an amusement society with writers chief among the court jesters - not so much above the clatter as p...
"There is today an extraordinary interest with the data of modern experience per se. Our absorption in our contemporary historical state is very high r...
"But then why shouldn't he write the dead? He lived with them as much as with the living - perhaps more; and besides, his letters to the living were in...