My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
I need to meet people to be able to write.
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.