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.

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

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

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.