Saul Bellow Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.

  Saul Bellow

  Character, Rewriting, Reason

  Saul Bellow, Gloria L. Cronin, Ben Siegel (1994). “Conversations with Saul Bellow”, p.45, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

  Saul Bellow

  Character, Fate, Men

  Saul Bellow (2003). “Novels, 1944-1953”

• I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

  Saul Bellow

  Character, Fate, Men

  1953 The Adventures of Augie March.

• To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.

  Saul Bellow

  Character, Joy, Bears

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.

  Saul Bellow

  Passion, Character, People

  "The joy of texts". www.theguardian.com. September 10, 1997.

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