A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.


Refusing the Nobel Prize, New York Times (22 October 1964)


A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.