It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
My role as a novelist is to explore ideas and imagination, and hopefully that will inspire people from my world to continue dreaming and to believe in dreams.
I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and the freedom to go into a world of my own.
There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.
Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.