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• When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust…
• Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced,…
• It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
• Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
• In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve…
• The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
• War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.
• Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I…
• I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.
• I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
• Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the…
• The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.

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