“Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited...”
“You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”
“Perhaps the greatest illusion a writer ever creates is that his work is achieved without great effort or sacrifice. ”
“Shakespeare, in some sense, helped create the modern man, didn't he, his influence is that pervasive. He held the mirror up to nature, but he also created that mirror: so the image he created is the very one we hold ourselves up to.”
“I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
“To create one's own world takes courage.”