I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we callwhat he writes fiction.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.