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

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.

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

For me, words are just words, nothing else

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

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