As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process of writing. It's the same thing with reading - you lose yourself when you read as well. When I was younger I used literature that way, it was just escapism, a tool to run away from things.

I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.