Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Cinema is incredibly concise.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.