We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?

In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.

There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every interaction we have with people, to a lesser or greater degree.

When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.

We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.

When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.

I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.