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The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it's by, most books of this kind not only fail but fail big, since they are invariably expensive.

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.