Every single house has had death visit.

Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in

The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre.

I have to say my favorite stories are ghost stories. I don't like to see these made-up monster films or scary films with ghosts. It doesn't do anything to me. But a real ghost story that someone tells me, that I like.

I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.

I never know what something is going to be until it emerges from the womb and you see the crown of its head and then you see it pushing its way up. So in my life if another book wants to be born it's not for me to choose.