Writers Are The Exorcists Of Their Own

‎reading Good Literature Is An Experience Of Pleasure...but It Is Also An Experience Of Learning What And How We Are, In Our Human Integrity And Our Human Imperfection, With Our Actions, Our Dreams, And Our Ghosts, Alone And In Relationships That Link Us To Others, In Our Public Image And In The Secret Recesses Of Our Consciousness.

Journalism Is A Way Of Voicing Opinion, Of Participating In The Political, Social, Or Cultural Debate.

Journalism Has Been Very Important For Me - For A Long Time I Made My Living As A Journalist, And It Also Serves As A Source Of Ideas. Many Of The Things I Have Written I Would Not Have Written Without The Experience Of Being A Journalist.

I Don't Accept The Idea That Literature Can Be Just Entertainment And That There Is No Consequences Of Literature In The Real World.

This Fact Was Something I Also Learned From This First Novel That I Needed Personal Experience To Invent, To Fantasize, To Create Fiction, But At The Same Time I Needed Some Distance, Some Perspective On This Experience In Order To Feel Free Enough To Manipulate It And To Transform It Into Fiction. If The Experience Is Very Close, I Feel Inhibited. I Have Never Been Able To Write Fiction About Something That Has Happened To Me Recently. If The Closeness Of The Real Reality, Of Living Reality, Is To Have A Persuasive Effect On My Imagination, I Need A Distance, A Distance In Time And In Space.