I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.

In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.

I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, degraded on a day that I don't write.

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.