Yes, but I thought that the number of texts about the island itself was enough for another book.
JN: At the time these were a series of stories that were published in a number of different spaces, newspapers, websites, etc... And at one point I decided to compile them, but I found them a certain unity.
What was the drive?
JN: If you ask me ten years later, probably the Azores, Me, was the growth process and the confrontation between country and city. It seems to me that this issue will be present in everything I write and is back in this book that came out now. It is the great protagonist.
Do you prefer writing short stories?
JN: No. The problem is I have a professional life extremely tense and corseted and is not easy to have a creative unit throughout the year, while writing about so many things, from food, television, literature, golf. I write for various places and do a lot of television on these issues are not easy, so I can have a creative unit. Now I think I found it. Maturity helps. At Twenty-five years old is more difficult, this book was written at that time.
And now you almost 40 years, this book would you change it if you could?
JN: At 38 years old (laughs). I would change everything, or maybe change anything. The book is what it is. The reflection of a time, one particular time. What age brought me was patience. There is a time when we discover that we no longer die young and this has a tremendous strength.
It's liberating?
JN: It is profoundly liberating. Give yourself room to do the things you have to do. When you're young you think you're going to die and want to finish things on the same day and do one more trace in your killer gun. This does not happen when you grow up and that is part of that process.
You publish a novel.
JN: Is out now, in April, called "the sites with no response". I was ten years without publishing fiction.
By choice?
JN: For various reasons, one has to do with work; it is also a matter of maturity, at one point did not like what I was doing. Let's say that as creative and as readers we evolve in both fields. Sometimes there is a mismatch of rhythms; I was maybe a bit better reader than creator
You think you have to live life and then write about it?
JN: We live in so many ways. Rimbaud lived such a short time and left the work he left. Living is accurate, it does not mean that we need time, but especially for a genius is not important, but it is not my case (laughs).
