I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may be famous, he may be pandering to the mob, celebrity and so on.

Everything touches everything.

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.

In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.

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