Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.