There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

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I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

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I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

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I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

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