Saul Bellow Quote

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.

"Facts That Put Fancy to Flight" (1962), p. 68 - It All Adds Up (1994)