Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.

Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.

I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.

All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by the time I was thirty, and so I gave up my job and moved to Paris at twenty-eight. I just held my breath and jumped. I didn’t even look to see if there was water in the pool.

I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.

Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.