No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.