I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

I am a writer of fragments.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story