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"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."
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"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."
"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."
"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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"A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader."
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