We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.
Politically I 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.
When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.