I don’t think you can write a book that’s worth anything without extraordinary discipline.
I can’t think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.[La ficción se inventó el día en que Jonás llegó a casa y le dijo a su esposa que había llegado tres días tarde porque había sido tragado por una ballena.]
Fiction has helped my journalism because it has given it literary value. Journalism has helped my fiction because it has kept me in a close relationship with reality.
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.[Todo lo que entra en mi boca parece que me engorda, todo lo que sale de mi boca me avergüenza.]
Anyway, the whole purpose of what I just said was to put you on the defensive.
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
