Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.
Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.
We are our choices.
That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?