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

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

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

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 can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

Writers are not meant for action.