That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good writer wants to generate - at all costs, unfotunately.

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My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.

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I ought to be able to invent words capable of blowing the odor of corpses in a direction other than straight into mine and the reader's face.

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My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

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Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

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Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

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I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

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Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

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There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

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The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.

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