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I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

I just think that it's very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.

Japanimation is a whole different art form.

Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.

There's just something hypnotic about maps.

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

The earliest maps were 'story' maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with supposition, memory and fears. Their maps described both landscape and the events, which had taken place within it, enabling travellers to plot a route as well as to experience a story.

For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all.

I have always loved maps.