Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.
If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it's not you alone, it's you in partnership.
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.