You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

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

you can survive only if nothing is necessary to you

There are two kinds of typical days. There's the typical day when I'm writing a novel, and there's the typical day when I'm not.

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were a drop of water evaporating in the sun, shrinking and shrinking until at last he wasn’t there anymore.