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

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 am against the notion of style in itself

A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.

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.

I don't have any style.