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

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

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

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.

There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to talk myself out of writing, sometimes for many years, and when I run out of arguments, I write.

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.