1. “Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.”
2. “It’s not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.”
3. “The greatest menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.”
4. “Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.”
5. “I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.”
6. “I really love to set things in places that are real to me.”
7. “One writes to memorialize and to bring to life again that which has been lost.”
8. “The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.”
9. “I consider tragedy the highest form of art.”
10. “Love is an indescribable sensation – perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.”
11. “Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.”
12. “Before you can write a novel you have a number of ideas that come together. one idea is not enough.”
13. “We are linked by blood and blood is memory without language.”
14. “In love there are two things – bodies an words.”
15. “Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.”
