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

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 don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

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.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.