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" I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists. "

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" Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me. "

" Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me. "

" I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon. "

" A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. "

" Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior. "

" I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause. "

" The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. "

" Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession. "

" In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman. "

" A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people. "

" Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug. "

" What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. "

" The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. "

" Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write. "

" I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life. "

" What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth? "

" I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works. "

" A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway. "

" My university work was not central to my education. "

" If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories. "

" I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it. "

" A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. "

" I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature. "

" I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party. "

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" The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor. "

" I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres. "

" Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer. "

" I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway. "

" New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city. "

" Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger. "