Books Quote by Albert Camus

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

— Albert Camus

Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature, and it's…

— Catherine Camus

We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any of it,…

— Catherine Camus

I think [Albert Camus] wanted to write something to explain who he was, and how he was different from the age that had been…

— Catherine Camus

I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.

— Catherine Camus

Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for nothing that…

— Catherine Camus

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

— John Gregory Dunne

Albert Camus was never abandoned by his readers. Camus is enormously read. He's the highest selling author in the entire Gallimard collection, and has…

— Catherine Camus

Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [Jean-Paul ] Sartre and all the intellectuals of that generation.

— Catherine Camus

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men…

— Andrew O'Hagan

[Albert Camus] was not an existentialist!

— Catherine Camus

The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he describes her.…

— Catherine Camus