It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by those among the characters on whom they will have had any effect. I would like those events, in the account they will make of them, to appear slightly distorted; a kind of interest stems, for the reader, from the simple fact that he should need to restore. The story requires his collaboration in order to properly take shape.

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.