My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
Without literature my life would be miserable.
Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.