Who said “When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.”?

“Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.”

“If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.”

“As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.”

“In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.”

“A publisher is a specialized form of bank or building society, catering for customers who cannot cope with life and are therefore forced to write about it.”

“Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.”

“Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?”

“A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!”

“Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.”

“I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.”

“I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.”