The novel is the most democratic of all art forms because it depends only on the reader’s imagination.
I do not decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn’t.
We are all creatures of the forest, and the forest is a creature of us.