I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.

Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't produce changes, but I think the social and political effect of literature is much less controllable than I thought.

I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while.

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