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‎reading Good Literature Is An Experience Of Pleasure...but It Is Also An Experience Of Learning What And How We Are, In Our Human Integrity And Our Human Imperfection, With Our Actions, Our Dreams, And Our Ghosts, Alone And In Relationships That Link Us To Others, In Our Public Image And In The Secret Recesses Of Our Consciousness.

This Fact Was Something I Also Learned From This First Novel That I Needed Personal Experience To Invent, To Fantasize, To Create Fiction, But At The Same Time I Needed Some Distance, Some Perspective On This Experience In Order To Feel Free Enough To Manipulate It And To Transform It Into Fiction. If The Experience Is Very Close, I Feel Inhibited. I Have Never Been Able To Write Fiction About Something That Has Happened To Me Recently. If The Closeness Of The Real Reality, Of Living Reality, Is To Have A Persuasive Effect On My Imagination, I Need A Distance, A Distance In Time And In Space.

The Secret To Happiness, At Least To Peace Of Mind, Is Knowing How To Separate Sex From Love. And, If Possible, Eliminating Romantic Love From Your Life, Which Is The Love That Makes You Suffer. That Way, I Assure You, You Live With Greater Tranquility And Enjoy Things More.

I Have A Chest Full Of All The Insults, Villainies, And Infamies A Man Is Capable Of Withstanding. . . . If You Become Famous, You Will Have To Go Through That.

I Completely Believe That - Literature For Me Is A Way Of Life. That's Probably True Of All Writers Or All Artists. I Think In The End This Kind Of Activity Absorbs One In Such A Way That It Becomes One's Way Of Life.