I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.

Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight.

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

One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves and that they must now do it. In fact there are positive incentives for doing so - universities are offering degrees for writing novels.

I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.

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.