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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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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When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.
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Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.
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I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.
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