Depression is always in the details.

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each of us.

It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them?

I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.