You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.

One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something.

The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though.

I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small.

Writers feel that they can't afford to wait. They must do it now, and they are so clever, and there is so much competition. I'm quite happy to wait, and quite confident that the muses will cross the stream.

It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian novel are difficult for me as it is all too close - I can't see the woods for the trees.

You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.