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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

Water is my drink.

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

I drink because I'm thirsty.

My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my mind.