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.

Literature is about getting in touch. It sounds so hippie, but it really is about sharing stuff. We are a community that doesn't seem to be important for the rest of society, but we are people who want to get in touch - really in touch. We want to be thinking together.

Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us, and we want to belong to it or we don't want to belong. You can read every story with this as its main focus.

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.

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.