Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment, but a way to act.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

Men do not live by truth alone; they also need lies: those that they invent freely, not those that are imposed on them; those that appear as they are, not smuggled in beneath the clothes of history. Fiction enriches their existence, completes them and, fleetingly, compensates them for this tragic condition which is our lot: always to desire and dream more than we can actually achieve.

But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.