Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

Our brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the environment. So what we have here is an enormously complex notion of both consciousness and unconsciousness. That's why these models get very difficult, because you can't reduce our subjective and intersubjective experience to neural reductions.

Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.

Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.