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

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

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

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

I only understand realism.

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.