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

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

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.

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

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

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

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.