I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of...

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of...

As a rule, one should never place form over content.

As a rule, one should never place form over content.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their...

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their...

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is...

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is...

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them...

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them...

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life...

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life...

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious...

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious...

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel....

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel....

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States...

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States...

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces,...

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces,...

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States....

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States....

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

I only understand realism.

I only understand realism.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.