I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.