Quotes by Marin Preda

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The writer must not leave the man, even if the man, fed up with his own deeds, would not like to put a mirror in front of him and see his face.

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Why would a writer be great if he is not original and has not discovered anything?

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The act of creation is the result of the secret inner life of the writer; it is no longer known, and he no longer knows exactly, if what he tells really happened to him, if he only imagined it, it is a mixture of real facts and inventions. It is impossible to draw a line between the imaginary life, created and expressed in a book, and that lived by the writer.

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What is a book if not a good friend you can talk to anytime in the solitude of your room?

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Isn't artistic creation one of the most energetic responses that man gives to the cursed insoluble problem? Do we not admire in her our victory over death? Doesn't the artist stop the moment, immortalizing it and giving us, who contemplate it materialized, the thrill of immortality, first experienced by him?

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It is just as fatal to write a book as are the other phenomena of existence: births, deaths, accidents, and on a larger scale, of course, social earthquakes. People need to take cognizance of their deeds, it's a law of modern times, which first appeared with the ancient Greeks. And often this law sacrifices one to tell them.

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A country that does not know how to defend its "poets" will be defeated or will survive miserably at the tail of other nations, because poetry is the blood of a people that flows underground through the ages and makes it immortal.

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Is it possible to die thinking that your life has been a long series of failures?

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A failure can be the premise of a victory.

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He who does not fall, cannot rise.

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Valuing those we love is a support, even if this valuing does not measure our exact worth.