There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.

I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only reason to write is that somehow it will make something or somebody better.

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.

It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.

As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

To write has to be related to a drive inside.