The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.
I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.
A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.
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.
A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.