Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
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Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
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If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
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No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
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