No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and that was Eric also, what a little monster he was! - in a novel, even if I took it directly from life, it would be fiction.

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.

As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

but even the facts do not always tell the truth

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.