Novelists very (1) articulate in essays or diaries what it was that they intended in their fiction: if they could do that, they probably would not have written the3 novel. ... The French novelist Andre Gide is quoted as saying that a writer can "hardly discover his intentions until he has completed his work, and perhaps not even then."
――関西学院大学 文学部(2月6日実施)――2004年