Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

To survive, you must tell stories.

It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.