People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.

Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some sort of an unpragmatic dialogue with my neighbors.

He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed like no more than a trap, a maze, not even a maze, just a room that was all walls, no door.

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

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