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- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. — Juan Goytisolo
- Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. — Juan Goytisolo
- The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language. — Juan Goytisolo