I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.