"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."

"I have always felt that one doesn't have to be a genius to be a good writer. One only has to be honest."

"If I were to write a history of my literary life, it would be a history of my readings and not of my writings."

"I am not sure that I exist, in fact. I am all the writers I have read, all the people I have met, all the women I have loved; all the cities I have visited, all the ancestors I have had."

"My greatest fear is not death, but oblivion."