The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, 'Anais - Anais - Anais. You just say 'Anna' and then add 'ees,' with t…

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. It is a materializati…