The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Poetry is written with tears, novels with blood, and history with invisible ink.
Novels do not begin the way you want them to, but the way they want to.[Las novelas no empiezan como uno quiere sino como ellas quieren. ]
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness that serves as an incubator for the wonders being born.
