I have never sought the reason why I write.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.

Vibration is the core of the spirit. It is the breath of life.

Truth is mighty and will prevail.

You will see true character after a defeated ambition

I went back to look for you.Not understanding the language of hello, I thought I’d speak it just the same.

He says he wants more carrots and bread crumbs!

Running into a pole is a drag, but never being allowed to run into a pole is a disaster.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.