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.

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

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.

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.

I have never sought the reason why I write.

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

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