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.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

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.

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

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

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

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