Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.

Actually, screenplays were much more detailed than what I did in the book In the book I had to invent a style for communicating what the sensation of looking at a film would be, whereas the screenplays I wrote in Paris were actual blueprints for how to do the film, with every gesture, every little movement noted in exhaustive detail.

but even the facts do not always tell the truth

I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood." Those were my thoughts, and this was how this crazy book [Winter Journal] was composed. I've never seen a book with pictures like at the end, pictures related to things you've read before.

No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself