Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

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

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

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.