“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”

“After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.”

“You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”

“Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. ”

“It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”

“There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.”

“Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?”