Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books Quotes

“As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find myself in the position of being both myself and nothing. 65”
― Marcel Benabou, Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books

“Thus I discovered that if one is the least bit welcoming in one's treatment of it, a word never comes alone. It brings along with it all those that belong to its clan...102”
― Marcel Benabou, Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books

“I long believed that one was born a writer, that it was enough to allow to ripen within oneself for an appropriate number of years this precious seed, and that then one day the first book would appear, as had earlier, at the appointed hour, the first tooth. 53”
― Marcel Benabou, Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books

“At the rate these illuminations appear, it will no doubt take me a long time to gather the material for even one single book. For my inspired double-- this phantom builder of sentences who maliciously impedes my work to dictate his clever discoveries-- always comes at those (infrequent) hours of his choosing, drafts (at best) three little pages, then goes away.”
― Marcel Bénabou, Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books

“[It's] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97”
― Marcel Benabou, Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books