Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.
I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe were all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.