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.

Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.

I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.

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

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

I started appreciating and valuing different things. Some things just became insufferable to me, and not just literature. I used to like horror movies and now I couldn't stand them.