When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.
I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.
Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain."
There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters.
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.