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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Writing in a strict form can surprise you.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

I don't intend to write the same kind of book for the rest of my life because I feel I would not be satisfied only writing in one mode.

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.