With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you'v… — Saul Bellow

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 BellowNovelist · American · 1914 – 2005

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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. — Abraham Lincoln
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. — Saul Bellow
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. — Saul Bellow
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow