My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I...
I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.
I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of...
Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can...
Since I have come to America I am often asked whether my next novel will be...
I didn't want to be a writer but I became one. And now I have many readers...
I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics because if I do I...
Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a...
Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the...
I get up early in the morning 4 o'clock and I sit at my desk and what I do...
I know how fiction matters to me because if I want to express myself I have...
I don't know how many good books I still have in me I hope there are another...
Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe...
You know if you are kind of rich the best thing is that you don't have to...
Among the many values in life I appreciate freedom most.
I lost some of my friends because I got so famous people who just assumed...
I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.
