I think it can be quite impossible to think well of yourself, so I prefer not to think about that too much. But I am very pleased, obviously..

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt..

It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, alt….

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important..

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it..

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them..

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore..