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"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."
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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."
"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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"I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship."
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