I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.

Belgium is a country with a split personality.

I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.

What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.

I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.

The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.

I always have lots of zany ideas for promotional stuff as publication nears.

There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don't do a bad job.

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

He’s here. I feel him. His body is touching mine and it’s very real. We’re holding each other

God is changing the guard indeed in the body of Christ worldwide. This I cannot be quiet about!

There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.

Every movie I've ever made has just kind of come together.

I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.

To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.

Don't be kind of bold. Be bold.