The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be
Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it
There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.