“I write the drama, I don't live it.”
“I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations.”
“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.”
“I live to write but, I read to live.”
“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.”