“How to write more and more freely, more easily, closer to reality. This is the question to which I try to remain faithful. At the very beginning (Beirut 1965) I had to learn how to write, as much as I could. No matter how stubbornly I try to learn, I know that I know nothing. I want to forget every single piece published until yesterday.

It is a luxury – if not a pleasure – to waste time looking at the Medusa of the past. Hundreds of pages may become a literary experience called poetry, criticism, study, fiction, but it shouldn’t be limited to any literary genre.

Writing is, definitely a feeling-thinking-speaking. And at that level, everything I write comes to the same denominator or starts from the same point. Isn’t this experience a deviation?”

Krikor Beledian