That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

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

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.