I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

I think there's a difference between God and religion.

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.