The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.

Murder and hate are as deeply buried in the human heart as love, perhaps more so, and in truth they're rather entwined, and if you tried to separate them, you'd be missing something important and human.

I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom it falls.

I think writing should be about change.

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.