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I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.

I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then it starts to become something.

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels.

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.