Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!
One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.
Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.
We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.
Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.
Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.
Ce-mi place mie este să citesc romanele, nu să le fac autopsia.
The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more.
Eso era la historia, una rama de la fabulación que pretendía ser ciencia.
1975