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The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.

Like most writers, I read deeply into the genre in which I write.

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.

I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.