Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say... but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

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I do not really write novels, but more wobbly things, sets of dreams that come from imagination.

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I think that in order to create a literary work, we simply have to dream our own life - a dream where imagination and memory get mixed.

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The autobiography business turns out in something with many imprecisions, since many times we sin by omission, intentionally or not.

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Writting turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get ir right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.

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Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.

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I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again...

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That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good writer wants to generate - at all costs, unfotunately.

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My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.

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I ought to be able to invent words capable of blowing the odor of corpses in a direction other than straight into mine and the reader's face.

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