Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

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 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

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

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