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"I have never sought the reason why I write."
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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
"If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions!"
"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."
"If I had been born in the medieval times, my subjective union with God and the Universe would have evoked the rise of another Gnostic religion. But, by the grace of Mother Nature, I am born in an era of Science and Reasoning. Hence, I have dissected my own experience of Absolute Divinity as well as the experiences of all the religious giants in my works, in order to discover the physical truth underneath these apparently supernatural experiences."
"When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!"
"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason."
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"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."
"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds."
"All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is."
"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."
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