I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

When I was younger, I used to find stories about divas charming. Not much anymore.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.