I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.