To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.

Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness.

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.