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I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.
I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.
I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.
I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.
Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.
It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.
One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.
It turns out that popularity is scary. I don't feel comfortable receiving so much attention from people; perhaps that's because I'm just... →
When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was... →
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