Novels arise out of the shortcomings of History.
I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.
What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.
Good writing is always new.
The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.