We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.