As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.

If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.

Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say it's like giving birth because I haven't given birth. It's more like when your children leave home.

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.