I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.