In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.

I have a story that will make you believe in God.

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.

I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.

We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?