Perhaps It Is Indeed Time I Began

You Could Say I'd Rewritten The Same Novel Three Times And I Thought I Had To Move On. The Success Of The Book, And Then The Movie, Had By Then Also Created A Commercial Expectation And I Remember Touring America And Seeing People In The Audiences Who I Thought Might Not Want To Read The Books I Wanted To Write Next. My Constituency Had Become Broader, But More Mysterious To Me.

What Is Difficult Is The Promotion, Balancing The Public Side Of A Writer's Life With The Writing. I Think That's Something A Lot Of Writers Are Having To Face. Writers Have Become Much More Public Now.

I Don't Really Like To Work With Literary Allusions Very Much. I Never Want To Be In A Position Where I'm Saying, "you've Got To Read A Lot Of Other Stuff" Or "you've Got To Have Had A Good Education In Literature To Fully Appreciate What I'm Doing."

If You Go To Tokyo, I Think It Becomes Very Obvious That There's This Almost Seamless Mixture Of Popular Culture And Japanese Traditional Culture.

It Was Like When You Make A Move In Chess And Just As You Take Your Finger Off The Piece, You See The Mistake You've Made, And There's This Panic Because You Don't Know Yet The Scale Of Disaster You've Left Yourself Open To.