Everybody contributes something to the system, and everybody suffers from the system.

I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It's really harder if you've already finished four hundred pages and realize the first hundred aren't working.

Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot dilute things into a novel. I think the first hundred pages of a novel are very important. That's where you set things up: the world, the characters. Once you've set that up, it'll be much easier.

Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.

Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say.