A book comes and says, Write me. My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate

A home without books is a body without soul

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything

I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid the book being worked on

It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude

Every artist writes his own autobiography

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry