Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.