Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious.

Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious.

I'm interested in endurance. People persist in the face of the most excruciating hardships.

I guess I'm drawn to stories of people whose physicality puts them on the outside of things in order to explore the ways in which an identity is formed around these prevailing attitudes.

Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child?

In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.