Canadian-American writer (1915-2005)
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
SAUL BELLOW
Seize the Day
If I want to do the same old thing, it’s easy. If I want to do something altogether new, it becomes harder. I could go on writing the stories I’ve been writing during the last few years. They have a certain charm and they’re true as far as they go. They're just not enough.
SAUL BELLOW
AGNI interview, 1997
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
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
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