I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

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

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

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.