“The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.”
“The writer who possesses the creative gift of fantasy owns something of which he is not always master; something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.”
“Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.”
“There is nothing wrong in theorizing and hypothesizing; a writer is not an escapist, he creates a world he would love to be in. A world he would rather be in.”
“He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it is there with the other impossibilities of this world which is too full of weeping for a child to understand.”
“Writers and magicians do essentially the same thing, they create worlds with words and will.”