Having books published is very destructive to writing.
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.
French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.
When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.