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Life is weather. Life is meals.
Dresscodes are for styleless people.
In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
The normal economic system works itself.
Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.
The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.
I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
It's just that it's hard to believe in greatness.
Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.
I've always said that I felt women are more heroic.
Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.
Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start.
There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.
I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.
Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.
It's tremendous: this world, this life. Take it while you have it.
Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.
One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.
We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives.
It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.
What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.
You are perfectly entitled to invent your life and to claim that it's true.
You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.
On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.
ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.
Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.
I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.
You can't be admitted to the ranks of writers of importance unless you have sales.
I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.
A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.
I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.
You’re so American. You believe everything is possible, everything will come. I know differently.
If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.
As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.
I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.
The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.
A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.
I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.
Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.
I've made an effort to nurture the feminine in myself. I don't mean overtly, but in terms of response to things.
The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.
I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.
Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power.
Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.
Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave
The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.
I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest.