Writers Are The Exorcists Of

A Novel Which Persuades Us Of Its Truth Is True However Full Of Lies It May Be

One Can't Fight With Oneself, For This Battle Has Only One Loser.

I Couldn't Imagine Any Other Way Of Living, Outside Of Books, Outside My Work. Which Doesn't Mean I Am Not Interested In Other Things, Of Course - I Am Interested In Many Things. But The Center, The Crux, Is Always Literature.

Science Is Still Only A Candle Glimmering In A Great Pitch-dark Cavern.

I Completely Believe That - Literature For Me Is A Way Of Life. That's Probably True Of All Writers Or All Artists. I Think In The End This Kind Of Activity Absorbs One In Such A Way That It Becomes One's Way Of Life.