Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.