Don't classify me, read me.

The real bombs are my books, not me.

I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.