If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.

Memory narrativises itself.

I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.