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.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

This place is Hell’s waiting room.

That’s what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.

When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.

No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.

Privacy is not for the passive.

I find love from time to time.