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"I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost."
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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."
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"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."
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