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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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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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.
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A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
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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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I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.
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The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
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I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
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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.
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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.
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