It's Difficult For Me To

We, As Writers, Have To Figure Out A Way To Create A Consciousness In Language. It's Crazy Even To Attempt To Do That.

There Are Many Things I Think About That Never Get To The Point Of Becoming Serious. In Other Words, I Try To Talk Myself Out Of Writing, Sometimes For Many Years, And When I Run Out Of Arguments, I Write.

I Do Believe - And I Know I Shouldn't - That Art Transcends Money And Success And Any Of That. You Can Still Do It If You're Not Clinging To The Notion Of Nobility.

Even If You Tried To Extinguish Your Personality, What Is Left In The Story Will Reflect It, Perhaps By Its Negation. Our Lives Provide The Bricks From Which We Build These Cathedrals.

Europe Is A Rapidly Changing Place, On Every Level. Immigration, Post-communist Transitions, The Unification, Steady Presence Of War And Conflict, The Inescapable Challenges To The Notion Of National Literature/culture-it All Exerts Pressure Upon Writers Who Must Be Aware Of The Transformational Possibilities Of The Situation.