The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.
When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.
I have always been independent. I like it that way. When someone forces me to do something, I don't do it.
One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.
I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.
When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!