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"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
"The city is a labyrinth of memories, and every street, every building, every corner holds a story waiting to be discovered."
"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter. It creates a picture, but it's not always the same picture."
I’m always trying to find a way to make the story more interesting, more complex, more layered.
The stories I’m writing now are more and more about memory, about the past, and about how we reconstruct the past.
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do this best, for me.
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
The complexity of things—the things within things—just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
I have always been attracted by the fantastic, the strange, the surreal.
The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
A good story can change the way we see the world and ourselves.
"The truth is, we all carry our prisons within us."
"Every word knows something of a vicious circle."
"The true power of a story is not in its plot, but in the emotions it evokes and the thoughts it provokes."
"Writing is not just about telling stories; it's about exploring the depths of human experience."