A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
A writer is supposed to have anonymity.
Any writer who says he loves writing is crazy. Or lying.
A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.
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