What They Say About Bienvenido N. Santos and His Works:
"The capacity for being introspective without being obtrusive is essentially the magic of Santos's fiction."
Alfredo Navarro Salanga
"Bienvenido N. Santos is the mast of passionate love in Philippine fiction."
Ricaredo Demetillo
"For this man with trembling hands posesses....a concience aquiver with truth. It (reading his works) is verily like watching a tender twig on which a sunbird has alighted."
N.V.M. Gonzalez
"He is of course the dean of Filipino writers in English. He is also one of that fast-vanishing race-the men of letters....the man who can truly say that writing is at least his craft if not his trade."
Francisco Arcellana
"Mr. Santos is a master at giving the reader a sense of people speaking in many languages and dialects. Even Mark Twain couldn't transcribe dialects so that they were readable. But Mr. Santos can."
Maxine Hong Kingston
