I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. - V. S. Naipaul

To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.

After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.

Whatever they say about going back to the beginning, they’ll be interested in the car.