I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame. I don't really like to say this because it never sounds sinc…

I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be intere…

I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.

I think it's impossible to do Tolkien. It's impossible to get the brilliance of what he wrote about -- just the medium, the book, the novel gives you other are…

The whole sphere of cognitive and epistemological considerations was extremely important in my book and it was tightly coupled to the solaristic literature and…

What are novels? What is the secret of the charm of every romance that ever was written? The first thing in a good novel is to place the persons together in ci…