Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go..

I have been everywhere because I don't know what I'm looking for..

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon..

We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us..

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card..

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them..

A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life..

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles..

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never….

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction..

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way..

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative..

All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and render….

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like..

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake..

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins..

We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy..

There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth than the other; that the….

What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reas….

The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem..

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your be….