I have never sought the reason why I write.

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.

I have never sought the reason why I write.

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

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

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.

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