There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.

Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.