“Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes — even in a scientific text.”
Prologue, p. xv
A Tale of Two Continents (1997)
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“The reader collaborates with the author in every book, or The reader is co-author in every book.”
Tout livre a pour collaborateur son lecteur
Source: Biographical notice http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/maurice-barres-499.php on Evene

Source: A Mathematical Theory of Systems Engineering (1967), p. v;

“The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.”
Source: Postscript to the Name of the Rose

Time to be Earnest - a Fragment of Biography Faber & Faber, London 1999.
Time to be Earnest - a Fragment of Biography

“Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.”
Comment about Lillian Hellman in a televised interview (1979) on The Dick Cavett Show; this prompted a defamation suit against McCarthy which was dropped after Hellman's death: "If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on. I didn't want her to die. I wanted her to lose in court. I wanted her around for that."