I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think.

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

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.

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

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

The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn a logical way to start a story, whereas in creative writing you may begin at the end or begin at the middle of the story.

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.