Saul Bellow Book Quotations

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I read, "The forgiveness of sins is perpetual and righteousness first is not required." This impressed me so deeply that I went around saying it to myself. But then I forgot which book it was.

You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do that. But it's much more interesting to talk about books. After all, that's what life used to be for writers: they talk books, politics, history, America. Nothing has replaced that.

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.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.