If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.