What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing.

...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart.

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.