The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.