Tobacco Is The Opiate Of The Gentleman,

I Describe My Works As Books, But My Publishers In Spain, In The United States, And Elsewhere Insist On Calling Them Novels

Writing For Me, Even What You Call Serious Writing, Is Play.

You Are Just In The Middle Of A Struggle With Words Which Are Really Very Stubborn Things, With A Blank Page, With The Damn Thing That You Use To Write With, A Pen Or A Typewriter, And You Forget All About The Reader When You Are Doing That

I Was Never A True Journalist, I Was A Movie Critic.

American Literature Had Always Considered Writing A Very Serious Matter