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.

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 have assiduously avoided calling my books novels

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips

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

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader

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