War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.
The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.
I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.
I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
