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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."
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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."
"No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking."
"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."
"Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me."
"When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words."
"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."
"I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels."
"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."
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