
Source: On a writer’s responsibility in “The Literature of Uprootedness: An Interview with Reinaldo Arenas” https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-literature-of-uprootedness-an-interview-with-reinaldo-arenas in The New Yorker (2013 Dec 5)
Nobel Prize Speech (1954)
Source: On a writer’s responsibility in “The Literature of Uprootedness: An Interview with Reinaldo Arenas” https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-literature-of-uprootedness-an-interview-with-reinaldo-arenas in The New Yorker (2013 Dec 5)
“The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.”
“1) Writers who write for other writers should write letters.”
Niven's Laws, Niven's Laws For Writers
“I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.”
When asked about her influences. guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/10/maevebinchy
Preface to Lehrreicher Geschicht-Herold
Other Quotes
Letter to L.A. Avilova (February 26, 1899)
Letters
Memo to The New Yorker (1959); reprinted in New York Times Book Review (4 December 1988)
Letters and interviews