The only books I recognize as mine are those I must still write.

Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again.

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.

In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my writings after night, including those that deal with biblical, Talmudic, or Hasidic themes, profoundly bear it's stamp, and cannot be understood if one has not read this very first of my works. Why did I write it? Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of the madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind?

Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.

I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about — and the reader is no fool.

I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

You know me now. I’m only good at beginnings.

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me — the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

I only work with the best.