In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

If you using local color in an unobtrusive way, it is all for the good. But if you stress it, the whole thing is artificial. But it should be used, I mean, it's not forbidden. But you don't have to stress it.