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I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words.

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

That's what you're looking for as a writer when you're working. You're looking for your own freedom. To lose your inhibition to delve deep into your memory and experiences and life and then to find the prose that will persuade the reader.

Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a great escape.

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.

I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation.

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.