One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

I have never sought the reason why I write.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.