For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.