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"I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
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"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."
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"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."
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"Imagination is a glorious wonder."
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
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"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."
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"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."
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"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."
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"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
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"The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters."
Writing
"I am against the notion of style in itself."
Style
"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."
Identity
"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."
Mind
"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
Identity
"There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio."
Life
"I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself."
Journalism
"I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book."
Reading
"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."
Society
"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."
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