Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

I have never sought the reason why I write.

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.