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Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

I like the story writing process. I usually use someone who has been trained for structure to take the story that I actually want, place those elements in the right places.

Memory narrativises itself.

I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.

First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and in the end, I ended up with a house full of thousands of objects.

How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?

A story is how we construct our experiences.

Each piece I tell stands on its own, and then it all ties together. It segues from story to story, and then I wrap it up - like three-piece movements in a symphony.

I care about narrative structure; I care about how stories unfold.