Occupation: Author Birth: February 3, 1947
Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant..
Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of i….
Actually, screenplays were much more detailed than what I did in the book In the book I had to invent a style for communicating what the sensation of….
I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and f….
People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see jus….
I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life..
Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human feeling, a sign that I….
We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since..
Dismantling the architecture of my discontent.
At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has suffered in sile….
I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much..
My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them..
you can survive only if nothing is necessary to you.
Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might seem to him. No….
I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof..
I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book as we've always known it i….
When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I feel alive. Whereas when I'm not writing,….
Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read - poetry for exampl….
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going ….
The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other ….
The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count..