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 the accent on the 'ees.'

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 pove…

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

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