The Strange Thing About Writing Is That

As A Person, I'm Polite - I Want To Please.

If You Are Disappearing From Yourself, But You're Still Writing, Then There Is A Kind Of Activity Of Thinking Going On, Which In My World Is Similar To What's Going On In Music.

When I Look Back At What I've Written And Try To Explain It, It Doesn't Help, But It Helps To Be In A Process Of Writing. It's The Same Thing With Reading - You Lose Yourself When You Read As Well. When I Was Younger I Used Literature That Way, It Was Just Escapism, A Tool To Run Away From Things.

I Never Read The Translation Before Publication. The Most Important Things For Me Is That The Emotion Is Captured In Such A Way That The Feelings That Are In The Original Are There, Much More Than The Details, If They Are Right Or Wrong.

The Way We Deny Death Says Something About How We Live Our Lives, Doesn't It? At Least In Sweden Or Scandinavia, You Don't Have To Search Further Back In Time Than Maybe Three Generations To Find Another Way To Relate To Death. People Then Had A Different, Closer Relationship With Death; At Least It Was Like That In The Countryside.