Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

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

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

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

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.

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.

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

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

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.

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ..... a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black lace bra...

Reality is always different than words or a story sometimes it's better, many time not truthful.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

When it comes to football, God is prejudiced - toward big, fast kids.

Bloodshed begets bloodshed. Hatred begits hatred.

It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

When we have a new heart, we become new people, and then we have a new society, then we have a new nation.