I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

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.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.