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The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is nice to see the book out in the world and people having the same reaction as when I created it. The point of all art is the emotional transference, and when that happens, the book has succeeded.

We are probably the only artists in the world who have a 2,000-page book on a work of art that doesn't exist. But in this way, these projects reveal their identity through this whole process. When I'm starting, I only have the slightest idea of how the work of art will exist.

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't.

I realise that a novel and a film are different mediums. As artistes, we need to respect other artistes. It also needs a lot of courage to take risks to experiment and interpret known literary works.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.