When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, 'why did it take so long for me to write this book?' Because my dream, since I was 10 years old, was to be a writer. I said, I have to revisit my life using a metaphor, and the metaphor was basically this boy that has a dream and has to go far away to realize that his dream is close to him.