In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.

Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off from the rest of life. No - I want to always have a foot in the street, to be inmersed in the activities of my contemporaries, in the times, in the place where I live.

A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.