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" I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it. "

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" I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written. "

" I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing. "

" The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them. "

" I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause. "

" I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works. "

" I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon. "

" In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system. "

" Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences. "

" I suffer from everyday life. "

" I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois. "

" A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. "

" In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman. "

" If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories. "

" My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature. "

" The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor. "

" In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. "

" The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. "

" I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems. "

" What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. "

" Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature. "

" The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself. "

" Folktales are real. "

" I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality. "

" The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. "

" Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug. "

" I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running. "

" I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion. "

" A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway. "

" For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist. "