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I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.

My work always comes from the same source - from movement. It doesn't necessarily come from an outside idea, though the source can be something small or large that I've seen, often birds or other animals. The seeing can then provoke the imagining.

One has to view things realistically.

I think an important approach for designers to take is to have a very - not singular but focused point of view.

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.