Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
It is important not to trust people too much.
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.