I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.

Facts are lonely things.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

The future belongs to crowds.

We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die, but they would never say that movies will die with it, when in fact all forms depend on the narrative. I think if one of them fails, the others are going to fail as well. Maybe this will happen to both forms, and maybe movies will take a totally different direction with fiction.

It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'