I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself

I don't have any style.