A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.
A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it...
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
If I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you really begin to learn something about a thing not to want to write about it but rathe...
Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what...
It's funny,' I said. 'It's very funny. And it's a lot of fun, too, to be in love.''Do you think so?' her eyes looked flat again.'I don't mean fun in that way. In a way it's an enjoyable feeling.''No,'...
I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima
I don't know. I only think the Austrians will not stop when they have won a victory. It is in defeat that we become Christian.The Austrians are Christians-- except for the Bosnians.I don't mean techni...
I always shot scorpions with the .22 pistol.
How what she had done could never matter since he knew he could not cure himself of loving her
But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.
And pain does not matter to a man.
I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.
Man is not made for defeat.
Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. T...
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.