Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.