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

I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler or Stalin must have experienced the same tropisms as anyone else.

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.

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

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

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