I am not interested in myself. I am interested in myself only as an instrument, just as to do certain things I have to know how to use a typewriter. In the same way I have to know how to use myself, my family, my four duaghters – none of this is unimportant. So I write with my daughters. I write with my head, with my hands, with my typewriter, but also with my daughters. I write with this dog. All this is related.

Michel Butor, interviewed