When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself

Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity