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

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

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

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

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

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