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"I am a writer of fragments."
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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."
"There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio."
"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."
"I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels."
"I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me."
"The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters."
"I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself."
"It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down."
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