The World Seems Concerned With Pakistan Primarily

A Reader Should Encounter Themselves In A Novel, I Think.

I Don't Want To Be Anxious On My Day-to-day Life. I Want To Try To Imagine A Future I'd Like To Live In And Then Write Books And Do Things That, In My Own Small Way, Make It More Likely That That Future Will Come To Exist.

Why The Brevity? Because I'd Rather People Read My Book Twice Than Only Half-way Through

Readers Don't Work For Writers. They Work For Themselves.

I Take Six Or Seven Years To Write Really Small Books. There Is A Kind Of Aesthetic Of Leanness, Of Brevity.