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Lion’s den?

But it takes time. When I started to write this book and I was writing and writing every day, then when that darkness came, I was ready to enter it. It took time before that, to reach that stage. You can’t do that by starting to write today and then tomorrow entering that kind of world. You have to endure and labor every day. You have to have the ability to concentrate. I think that’s the most important ingredient to the writer. For that I was training every day. Physical power is essential. Many authors don’t respect that. [Laughs] They drink too much and smoke too much. I don’t criticize them, but to me, strength is critical. People don’t believe that I’m a writer because I’m jogging and swimming every day. They say, “He’s not a writer.”

Do you scare yourself when you write these dark things?

No, not at all.

Not even in the scene when the evil being is coming through the hotel room door to get Toru, or when the soldier is skinned alive? Doesn’t writing those scenes upset you?

OK, yeah, I get scared. When I was writing those scenes, I was there. I knew that place, I knew. I can feel the darkness. I can smell the strange smells. If you cannot do that, you are not a writer. If you’re a writer you can feel that in your skin. When I was writing the scene of the skinning, I was so … it was so horrible, and I was scared. I didn’t want to write it, honestly, but I did it. I wasn’t happy when I was doing it, but it was so important to the story. You can’t avoid that. It’s your responsibility.