I Cannot Live With Someone Who Can't

When It Comes To Their Essential Faculty As Writers, All Writers Are Androgynous Beings.

Can You Imagine Writers Influencing Things In America? Can You Imagine A Writer In England Influencing? Absolutely Not. And In France? It Used To Be, But No More - Absolutely Not. France Used To, At Least, Have Writers As Diplomats, But Not Any More.

Communists Are The Last Optimists.

Censorship May Have To Do With Literature; But Literature Has Nothing Whatever To Do With Censorship.

The Solitude Of Writing Is Also Quite Frightening. It's Quite Close To Madness, One Just Disappears For A Day And Loses Touch.