I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.
Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they bring me into worlds that I did not previously know. And that, as a writer, is what I try to create.
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.
I want people to be the authors of their own life story.
Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.
All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.
If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.