“What is clear to me, always, is that the writing must never lose sight of truth as its ultimate goal. Page after page, the drive to capture what is true, and not what resembles the truth, shapes the work. If, even for a few passages, the tone becomes false – that is, too studied, too limpid, too regimented, too well-phrased – I am obliged to stop and to figure out where I started to go wrong. If I can’t, I throw everything away.”
