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

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

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.

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.