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.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

As a rule, one should never place form over content.

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.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

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

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.