All I needed to know, all true knowledge, the only really essential knowledge, was to be found in the books I read and the music I listened to
There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.
Writing isn’t black magic. You just have to come up with an idea…
It was a fantastic feeling, but it left me restless because the most important thing in it was the longing, for what was going to be, not for what I did or had done.
Go somewhere you know nothing about and see what happens.
Writing was a defeat, it was a humiliation, it was coming face-to-face with yourself and seeing you weren’t good enough.
Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatestof them all, because it is the only one that sins against life.
Actually there were only two forms of existence, I reflected: one that was tied to a place and one that wasn’t. Both had always existed. Neither could be chosen.
For life, it’s very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer, it’s very good.
Attributing to another author, “Writing a novel is like setting a goal and walking there in your sleep.