How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country. You want the politics of any complicated situation to be complicated in a book of fiction or nonfiction.

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.