We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

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

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

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.