I am a writer of fragments.
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.
Puns are a form of humor with words.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.
I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.