literature is the last banquet between minds.
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
Writing is like carrying a fetus.
Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.
Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.