I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

We often think that tragedies happen because of great earthquakes in people's lives. I think they sometimes occur because of small things that become obsessive to a particular person.

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

A novel must work as a story because no one's going to get to the other themes if you don't entertain the reader. But I like to have another layer of meaning, although you can read the book on one level and not bother with that other layer.