I Think All Writing Is Done Through

Cigars Must Be Smoked One At A Time, Peaceably, With All The Leisure In The World. Cigarettes Are Of The Instant, Cigars Are For Eternity.

Tobacco Is The Opiate Of The Gentleman, The Religion Of The Rich.

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.

Dialogue In Fiction Is Always Written To Be Read In Silence. The Page Is The Limit. Dialogue On Stage And On The Screen Is Meant To Be Spoken. The Voice Is The Limit.

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.