All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?

When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.

I had a strong desire to write and some free time.

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.