Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

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

There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.

That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.