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.

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

We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

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.

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.