Saul Bellow Quotes about Writing

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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

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.

Saul Bellow

Writing, Long, Ordinary

Saul Bellow, Gloria L. Cronin, Ben Siegel (1994). “Conversations with Saul Bellow”, p.138, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

Saul Bellow

Marriage, Writing, Aphrodisiac

"Dailer's Choice" by Harriet Van Horne, The New York Magazine, Volume 10, No. 13, p. 80, March 28, 1977.

I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'

Saul Bellow

Love, Writing, Heart

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Saul Bellow

Book, Writing, Sunset

Saul Bellow (2010). “Saul Bellow: Letters”, p.167, Penguin

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

Saul Bellow

Country, Writing, Hypocrite

A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?

Saul Bellow

Writing, Heart, Long

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

Saul Bellow

Writing, Study, Novel

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.

Saul Bellow

Writing, Drug, Use

I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.

Saul Bellow

Hate, Writing, People