Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.

Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.

The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I’ll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that’s not accurate. Everything’s there so I won’t be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.

I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is my vocation to believe in them and in the fact that they'll interest people and maybe affect their lives.