but even the facts do not always tell the truth

I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy at times, but nevertheless, my feet are mostly on the ground.

In the same way, the world is not the sum of all the things that are in it. It is the infinitely complex network of connections among them. As in the meanings of words, things take on meaning only in relationship to each other.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.