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

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.