You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.