I still do believe that form and content are very much related. I think throwing away some of the rule books on that is a good thing.

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

I don't have the education of an art historian. I've certainly read about art and look at art and have educated myself to some extent. But I'm not a skilled or thorough art historian and I wouldn't call myself an art critic.

People, no matter the economic class, find ways to feed their narcissism.

I'm the author of my own misery.

As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.

I like to invent the dialogue that I want to have heard.