To Write Has To Be Related To

I Wanted Us To Share The Sense That The Number Of Wrong Moves Far Exceeds The Number Of Good Moves, To Share The Frightening Instability Of The Correct Decision, To Bond In Being Confounded.

Because Sometimes You Have No Control Over Life And It Keeps You Far Away From Who You Love.

You Have To Suspend Thinking In Narratives. The Moment You Are Conscious Of Yourself The Gap Opens Up. And In This Gap, Stories Are Generated.

Europe Has Never Been A Monolithic Space, It Contains A Lot Of People, A Lot Of Languages And Infinite Supplies Of History. I Didn't Need To Do Anything To Showcase Diversity. It Is A Condition Of Life And Art In Europe, Contained In Every Random Sample.

My Books Have Been Published All Over Europe. They Read Me There, And I Want To Read Them Back. I Also Spend A Lot Of Time In Europe, Often Meeting Writers, And I'm Sick Of Apologizing For The Embarrassing Shortage Of Translations In America.