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.

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

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

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

Writers are not meant for action.