If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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?
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.