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.

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.

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

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.