Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
“This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.”
Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)
“I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.”
Source: The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 9
“You are either born a writer or you are not.”
"The Strange Case of X", p. 196
City of Saints and Madmen (2001–2004)
“I am like the head of a company.”
He once said of his role in transforming Monaco.
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“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.”
which attitude certainly has a great deal to support it. On the other hand, it is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important. So that any writer, looking back over even so short a span of time as I am here forced to assess, finds that the things which hurt him and the things which helped him cannot be divorced from each other; he could be helped in a certain way only because he was hurt in a certain way; and his help is simply to be enabled to move from one conundrum to the next — one is tempted to say that he moves from one disaster to the next.
Autobiographical Notes (1952)
