A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.

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

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

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

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

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.