Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

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

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.

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

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

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.