We're Swallowed Up Only When We Are

It's The Duty Of All Novelists, All Painters, All Musicians, All People Who Try To Make Art Move: To Look For Something They Feel Authentically, Without Paying Attention To Styles.

For Me, The Poetry In A Work Is That Which Makes Visible The Invisible.

I Don't Admire Freud As Much As Some People Do. Imagine Shakespeare Being Aware Of The Oedipal Complex When He Wrote Hamlet. It Would Have Been A Disaster.

One Can't Write Without Having Read - You Have To Read Before Beginning To Write - And Universities Offer A Very Good Opportunity To Read.

It's A Question Of Not Copying The Masters, To Look For Something, Good Or Bad, For Oneself. To Enter This Liberated State Of Mind, One Cannot Copy The Others.