Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it - is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness.

To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they work throughout their lives.

It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write....