A Good Smoker, Like A Good Lover,

That Is What I Define As A Novel: Something That Has A Beginning, A Middle And An End, With Characters And A Plot That Sustain Interest From The First Sentence To The Last. But That Is Not What I Do At All.

What I Do Believe Is That There Is Always A Relationship Between Writing And Reading, A Constant Interplay Between The Writer On The One Hand And The Reader On The Other

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.

I Read The Odyssey Because It Was The Story Of A Man Who Returned Home After Being Absent For More Than Twenty Years And Was Recognized Only By His Dog.

But I Do Not Have The Reader In Mind When I Write. No True Writer Does That