Writer

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Tidak ada kesempurnaan hanya hidup.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

I find myself fascinating.

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.

Seorang pekerja mungkin adalah ahli palu, tetapi palu masih berlaku. Sebuah alat tahu persis bagaimana alat itu seharusnya ditangani, sedangkan pengguna alat hanya dapat memiliki gagasan perkiraan.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative.

Man's world is the planet of inexperience.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.