With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

Quote by Saul Bellow

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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever......

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever......

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

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

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion...

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion...

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America...

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America...

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business...

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business...

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need...

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need...

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them...

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them...

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more...

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more...

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was...

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was...

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

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

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

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended...

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended...

I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put...

I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put...

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones...

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones...

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

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

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business...

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business...