When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.

If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly authenticated because the whole world relies on you, who've made it possible.

Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that led people to survive and take stock and move on with some kind of notion of betterment.

At bottom, I'm a cheerful person.

People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.