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"For me, words are just words, nothing else."
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"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

"Answerest thou nothing? Behold how many things they witness against thee."

"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."

"Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something."

"Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it."

"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."
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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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