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

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

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.

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

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

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.