There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.

In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.

you can survive only if nothing is necessary to you

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.

Fiction creating reality.

I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.