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.

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

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

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.

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

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.