All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries.

To survive, you must tell stories.

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.