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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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...

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own...

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own...

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a...

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a...

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...

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one...

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one...

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...

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...

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.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not...

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not...

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You...

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You...

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

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

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.