Abstinenz / Abstinence Amerikanisch / American Evangelisch / Evangelical Ja wirklich / Really Kultur / Culture Lehrer / Teacher Mich selber / Myself Schreiben / Writing Tauchen / Immerse Versucht / Tried Zeitgenössisch / Contemporary
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.
I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.
Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves.
No, Islam did not free African-Americans from slavery, not in Africa and not in Europe or America. Evangelical Christianity did that.
Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.
Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.
