“The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd – one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like – one writes novels about it.”
The Times, May 15, 1986.
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English novelist 1905–2000Related quotes

“Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.”

“Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.”
Source: Americanah (2013)
Since "the answers of the special sciences" do not reach "the horizon of total reality", they are given "without having to speak at the same time of 'God and the world.'" (p. 96)
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, p. 95

"Quotes", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Polemical Introduction

“One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.”
Quoted in The Edmonton Journal (8 March 1999), C3

47 : The Question and its Answer, p. 78.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)