The Novel As We Knew It In

Good Writers Are Monotonous, Like Good Composers. They Keep Trying To Perfect The One Problem They Were Born To Understand.

Our Ideals, Laws And Customs Should Be Based On The Proposition That Each Generation In Turn Becomes The Custodian Rather Than The Absolute Owner Of Our Resources - And Each Generation Has The Obligation To Pass This Inheritance On In The Future.

Yes, One Uses What One Knows, But Autobiography Means Something Else. I Should Never Be Able To Write A Real Autobiography; I Always End By Falsifying And Fictionalizing—i’m A Liar, In Fact. That Means I’m A Novelist, After All. I Write About What I Know.

I Do Not Foresee A Time When I Shall Feel That I Have Nothing To Say.

I Like To Compare My Method With That Of Painters Centuries Ago, Proceeding From Layer To Layer.