I Have Assiduously Avoided Calling My Books

What I Do Believe Is That There Is Always A Relationship Between Writing And Reading, A Constant Interplay Between The Writer On The One Hand And The Reader On The Other

My Mother Had Been Educated At A Convent, And She Had Been Converted To Communism By My Father During Stalin's Most Rampant Period, At The Beginning Of The 1930s. So She Had Two Gods, God In Heaven And God On Earth.

When I Write, I Enjoy Myself So Much That What Is Being Written Really Needs No Reader

You Are Just In The Middle Of A Struggle With Words Which Are Really Very Stubborn Things, With A Blank Page, With The Damn Thing That You Use To Write With, A Pen Or A Typewriter, And You Forget All About The Reader When You Are Doing That

Many Of My Books Have Begun With The Title, Because Naming A Work Already In Progress Makes No Sense To Me.