4 Saul Bellow Quotes on Writing

Saul Bellow quotes on writing

2. 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.

20. I 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.'

32. It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow themselves the privilege of ranging freely through social classes and professional specialties. A certain pride in their own experience, perhaps a sense of the property rights of others in their experience, holds them back.

50. You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.