I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other

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.

I don't have any style.

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.