Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and by death I mean death as we live it today: without God, without hope of salvation. Death as the abrupt and absurd end of life

To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels into films. It's very difficult to do, and it usually doesn't work. There are exceptions, but generally speaking, one feels disappointed with the result.

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.