The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.

The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.

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

Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

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

Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.

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