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

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

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

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