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I'm interested in getting deep into a person's consciousness and doing so in ways in which the narrator is secondary to the character's own thoughts.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant of his reality, because I think that's pretty much what being a writer is - being there, watching and internalizing.

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.