The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels.

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.