“I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.”
“I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.”
“I thought about things, the pros and cons. But in the end I would be so confused, because I never believed there was ever any one right answer, yet there were many wrong ones.”
“I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.”
“I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.”
“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”