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

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

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

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.