“Without literature, life is hell.”
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.”
“In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.”
“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”
“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
“The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge”
“Bir insanın gençken kuvvetli karakteri yoksa, bir daha da olmaz.”
“Herkes kendi derdine daha güç dayanır.”
“Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu un long discours (A good sketch is better than a long speech)”
“The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author s own vision.”
“Literature is always personal, always one man s vision of the world, one man s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.”
“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?”
“Inequality was the price of civilization.”
“Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.”
“I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.”
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”