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

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

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.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler or Stalin must have experienced the same tropisms as anyone else.