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However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

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

Writing isn't everyone's favorite thing to do or what their thing is.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.