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"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
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"You are created with your special features that you need to fulfill your destiny and why it is so important to accept them."
"If a man realizes who he is, he will not react to the negative things surrounding him."
"What is inherent inside you is your uniqueness and peculiarity."
"There is no man in this world that God created to be a shadow of other people."
"Your discovery and realization of your personality for the well-being of humanity is much more essential."
"Many of us will not realize who we are because we do not want to go through the pain and trials."
"knowledge of who we are prevents us from being distracted by the demands of our surroundings."
"We have worth because we were created in the image and likeness of God."
"Aren't we all homeless without a home inside our mind?"
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"That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all."
"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."
"I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself."
"My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth."
"Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer."
"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."
"I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity."
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