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Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years - in order to grasp the dynamics, resistance and patterns of thought that repeat and impede progress and breakthrough.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic.

It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.