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I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music.

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

Whenever I write, I try and approach my stories from some kind of universal theme or idea or emotion.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it.

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.