My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?