Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

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.

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

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

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

I have never sought the reason why I write.