“The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.”
“History has to live with what was here,clutching and close to fumbling all we had -it is so dull and gruesome how we die,unlike writing, life never finishes.”
“The author must write what he has to say, not speak it.”
“He has a frightening aversion to text messaging in general."It's a phone. It's for making calls, not for writing novels".”
“There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.”
“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.”