A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.