I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted them to have, I had to discipline it into the clearest, most traditional language possible.

I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

I write novels and other things.

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.