Saul Bellow has that character in Henderson the Rain King say: "I want, I want, I want!"9 I remember reading this passage… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
DeLillo has said that he no longer feels a compulsion to write long, compendious books. In his later years, Saul Bellow said… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Saul Bellow says, funny enough, what French think of your work is tremendously important. And it is. It's more than what the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Once again it is demonstrated that people do not love their chains or their jailers,-and that the aspiration for a civilized life… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
“It is already the fashion to diminish Eliot by calling him derivative, the mouthpiece of Pound, and so forth; and yet if… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“Saul Bellow: Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are able to see anything.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I would love to love Saul Bellow, but by page fifty of 'Herzog', something within me has wandered into another room. — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow. — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' — which I think is true. I just… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or… — David Denby Copy Share Image
Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I'm not an especially male novelist, but I think men are better at writing about men, and the same is true for… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“The late literary giant Saul Bellow would call someone with the ability to spot important details among noise a “first-class noticer.” This… — Shane Snow Copy Share Image
The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
That certain snobbery of certainly the Parisian - combined with a complete denial of your historical legacy, is just awful. That's a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
At one point I would read nothing that was not by the great American Jews - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - which… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures,… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“Extreme suffering engenders revulsion. Bert felt what Saul Bellow would call the “sense of personal contamination and aversion” engendered by the “disintegrating… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
“The addict’s reliance on the drug to reawaken her dulled feelings is no adolescent caprice. The dullness is itself a consequence of… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The addict’s reliance on the drug to reawaken her dulled feelings is no adolescent caprice. The dullness is itself a consequence of… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“NO MUSE IS GOOD MUSE To be an Artist you need talent, as well as a wife who washes the socks and… — Rochelle Distelheim Copy Share Image
