I have never sought the reason why I write.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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