Creative Quotations from Saul Bellow (1915-2005)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Saul Bellow
(1915-2005) born on Jun 10

US novelist, author. He won Pulitzer Prize, 1976 for "Humboldt's Gift;" won Nobel Prize in literature, 1976.

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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.

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

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

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

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	In "The New York Times Book Review," by William Buckley, 24 Apr 1977.
R:	Allan Bloom, "The Closing of the American Mind," Foreword, 1987.
A:	Speech accepting Nobel Prize, 12 Dec 1976.
N:	In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
K:	In "Quotations of Wit and Wisdom," ed. & John W. Garder et al., 1975.