I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work. It's something I find very difficult. And yet, one does have some sense of responsibility towards one's publishers, to the people trying to sell the book.

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism.

I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.