I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

No person writes to win awards.

A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen.

I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.