Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

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The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or...

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or...

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

I only understand realism.

I only understand realism.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those...

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those...

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The...

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The...

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and...

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and...

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like...

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like...

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same...

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same...

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature....

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature....

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical...

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical...

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions...

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions...

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political...

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political...

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's...

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's...

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what...

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what...

Writers are not meant for action.

Writers are not meant for action.