“Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.”
“We're authors. We're more than a little unstable.”
“How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.”
“An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.”
“A person that has more intelligence than education always makes his own grade!”
“One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel”