I Usually Start Writing Stories

I Rarely Return To Characters. My Characters, At Least Most Of Them, Are Much More A Part Of That Superorganism That Is The Story Than Separate And Independent Creatures.

You Take A Book, And What Can You Do With A Book? Can You Cook An Egg On A Book? No. Can You Dig A Hole? No. Is It A Good Weapon? No. The Fact That It's Good For Nothing Kind Of Makes It Almost All-important.

Before I Started To Make Films, I Didn't Give Much Thought To The Way The Characters Were Physically Positioned In The Story World.

I Often Give This Metaphor Where I Say That Writing Short Fiction Is Like Surfing, While Writing A Novel Is Like Navigating With Your Car. So When You Navigate With Your Car, You Want To Get Somewhere. When You Surf, You Don't Want To Get Somewhere, You Just Don't Want To Fall Off Your Board.

When I Started Writing My Stories, I Thought That Not Only Nobody Outside My Language, But Nobody Outside My Neighbourhood Would Get Them.