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.

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

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

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

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

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.

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.