It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
Alberto MoraviaYou can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.
Alberto MoraviaI like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
Alberto MoraviaYes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by falsifying and fictionalizingโIโm a liar, in fact. That means Iโm a novelist, after all. I write about what I know.
Alberto MoraviaBecause the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudesโinto what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!
Alberto Moravia