If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

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

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

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.