WRITING: Most often, I begin researching a subject that interests me. If it clicks inside my mind, if I establish connections to the world around me, I write about it. At age twenty-three, for instance, while (...)

What is your creative process like? What happens before sitting down to write?

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Most often, I begin researching a subject that interests me. If it clicks inside my mind, if I establish connections to the world around me, I write about it. At age twenty-three, for instance, while in Paris, I read “Vie de Jésus” by Ernest Renan and I used it to write a work of fiction thirty years later.