Saul Bellow

“A writer is a reader moved to emulation.” ― Saul Bellow

“A plan relieves you of the torment of choice.” ― Saul Bellow 

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog 

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow 

“I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”
― Saul Bellow 

“People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.”
― Saul Bellow, Conversations with Saul Bellow 

“A man is only as good as what he loves.”
― saul bellow  

“One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog  

“Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.”
― Saul Bellow, Ravelstein

“Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.” ― Saul Bellow

“When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.” ― Saul Bellow

“I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevsky 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, Saul Bellow quotes on writer

“Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn’t know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you’re picking up the pieces — down to the last glassy splinter.” ― Saul Bellow