In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.

He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.