The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
A writer's job is to tell the truth.
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.