Saul Bellow Quotes

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.

Saul Bellow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 10, 1915 - April 5, 2005

Topics

GoodConfidenceSomeoneHandsYou

I've always been charmed by houses, and descriptions of them are prominent in my novels. So prominent, in fact, that my editor once pointed out to me that all of my early novels had houses on the covers.

Anita Shreve

MeEarlyAlwaysOutBeenFact

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Sophocles

WisdomWordsMuchGoesOftenFewest

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

Sue Monk Kidd

LifeWorkPeopleWritingThinkNeed

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay.

Tracey Emin

FriendsGayWhoAnyHardly

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

Travis Barker

GoodTooReallyDescendantsBill

There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.

Tom Petty

IntegrityCommunityNowRockReal

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

Tom Peters

ChangeSuccessChange The WorldWorld

Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.

Rob Lowe

ExperiencePeopleMeSomeoneYou

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

Liya Kebede

OthersGreatestGiftsHelpingChore

We used to go and play shows in the south in front of two people and now every show we did was just great. The warm-ups, most of those weren't even advertised and most of them were sold out. I don't know what's going on, it's just so much different than it used to be.

Jon Crosby

GreatPeoplePlayGoKnowNow

The world belongs to the wealthy, and nowhere is this injustice more apparent than in the workplace.

Winnie Byanyima

WorldInjusticeWorkplaceMoreThan

There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure.

Marianne Williamson

PowerWomanSilenceMysteryPowerful

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