One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
— Manuel Puig
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
Writers are not meant for action.
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
