I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

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

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

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