The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes have a loathing for the furious cravings that give me no peace except when I am working.

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.