I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.