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.
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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.
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I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
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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.
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I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book.
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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.
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