I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.

I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.

How can you teach someone to be creative? You have to create yourself.

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?

Imagination is so much more fertile than life.

It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had stayed away from fiction for so long and couldn't tear myself away from it.

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.

That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surrounded.

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

It's all rather political, mourning is.

Act according to your capacity.

You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films.

It's hard to have your parents not happy with you.

Programmers can be lazy.

Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.