I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.

At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.

It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.