Quotes About Author

Everyone has had, at a given moment, an extraordinary experience which will be for him, because of the memory of it he preserves, the crucial obstacle to his inner metamorphosis.

At bottom, for me, the act of writing is a sort of dialogue with God. I say with God, but I am not a believer, although I cannot say that I am an unbeliever either. But for me, this meeting with God is in the act of writing. A solitude which meets another, a solitude in front of another solitude. 'God' being more alone than oneself. Such a shame that, to reach God, there is no bypassing faith.

Inelegant to reproach a man for his sterility, when that is his postulate, his mode of achievement, his dream….

The leftist's despair is to battle in the name of principles that forbid him cynicism.

I abuse the word God; I use it often, too often. I employ it each time I touch an extremity and need a word to designate what comes after. I prefer God to the Inconceivable.

In a work of psychiatry, only the patients' remarks interest me; in a work of criticism, only the quotations.

It is a misfortune for an author to be understood.

My weaknesses have spoiled my existence, but it is thanks to them that I exist

I cannot bear your bothering about my salvation.

Ibiza me réussit aussi mal que Valldemosa à Chopin.

Voltaire was the first literary man to erect his incompetence into a procedure, a method.

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

The only possible answers are questions. Real Vikings are questions. The answers are what the Vikings chanted during the voyage to keep their spirits up.

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.

Publication — is the auction of the Mind of Man.

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

The defect of this religion is, that it is too abstract for the practical, and too bare for the musing.

The soul ties its shoe; the mind washes its hands in a basin. All is incongruous.

He did not seem to know enough about the people in his novel. They did not seem to trust him.

They're listening to the sun, Charles. Waiting for a new kind of light.

In his prime the Hollywood screenwriter was one of the tragic figures of our age, evoking the special anguish that arises from feeling sorry for oneself while making large amounts of money.

The camera resumes its melancholy tour.