If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

Madame....gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.

And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts, who had lost all shadows, and who stared you in the eyes with cold serenity.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.