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I think a conceptual idea comes to me first - something I've been mulling over a lot right before I feel like writing a book - and then the characters start to develop around it.

As a writer, I have to show complexities. Through my writings, I hope to bring out people in different situations and not just one-dimensional beings.

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music.

A writer is what I am.

A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.