Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.
I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together.
Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.
I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters live their lives.
Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they'd die for one another, that each cares more for the other than he does for himself, and it lasts usually until a second love comes on the scene, because most hearts aren't big enough to love more than one person like that.
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.
It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.
A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.