“Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind.”
― The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
― The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
“To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.”
― No Exit and Three Other Plays
― No Exit and Three Other Plays
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
― Time Regained
― Time Regained
“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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