Who said “Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the…”?

“Writers are always selling somebody out.”

“It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.”

“I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.”

“Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.”

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”

“The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.”

“I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.”

“The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.”

“Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.”

“Life itself is a quotation.”