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"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
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"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."
"You are the only one of your kind."
"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
"We have worth because we were created in the image and likeness of God."
"The simple truth is that the only real 'ex-gay' person is a dead gay person - and even then I am not too sure about the validity of that statement."
"You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!"
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"You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that."
"Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me."
"Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story."
"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."
"I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost."
"I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels."
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