Albert Camus on Writing

“A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.”

“I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.”

“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”

“A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.”

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