“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once, and they require separate techniques.”

“Oh! journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.”

“When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.”

“The act of writing itself distracts the thoughts, and what is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed.”

“In this world you either read or write, and writers write out of contempt for their colleagues, out of a desire to have something good to read once in a while.”

“These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.”

“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”

“I learned to write reading North American literature, I love your literature, but I have this feeling that if a country only reads its own literature, it will run out of oxygen.”

“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”

“Most rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read. ”