I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.