When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.

I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

Doctor Who' is the best show to write for, because of the actors and the scale of imagination that it demands.

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.