What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.

How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the closeness of it, had produced in them love s illusion. And yet - on the other hand - what was love if it wasn't this instinct she felt.

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

I'm not an urban person.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective