The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

I am one thing, my writings are another.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

My ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.