Occupation: Author Birth: February 3, 1947
I guess the important thing for young writers is to read..
I never would have thought of that word, "hospitality." I settle into the rhythm of my steps..
Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time..
It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers ….
People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is..
I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire him tremendously. Some years ago, ….
No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing,….
What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes..
To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels into films. It's very difficult to do, and….
All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-….
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly..
Fiction creating reality..
I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction..
You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions..
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own. A twelve is very d….
The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course..
We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the nex….
It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions..
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in ….
No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real..
You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky..