 I have never sought the reason why I write. |
| 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. |
| Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. |
| The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time. |
| All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is. |
| 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. |
| Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing. |
| I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well. |
| One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read. |
| I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster. |
| 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 act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me. |
| Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps. |
| One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. |
| 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. |
