I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.
What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?
All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper — the weight of a human heart.
Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.
If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.