The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.

Sopa yemiş köpeğe kırbacı bir kere gösterin yeter!

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.

Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.

Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" -

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night.