It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.