"[In response to the question "Who the hell are you?"] If I knew, I think I would not be able to continue writing, or wouldn't have written the books I have written."
— B. Traven

January 1, 1970

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Quoted by in "His Widow Reveals Much of Who B. Traven Really Was", The New York Times 25 June 1990