Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.
The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
Love means having something to betray.
The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.