And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to go, I would try to persuade him to devote himself first to the work of someone greater, interpreting or translating him.

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For I had reached a point in my life when I came to view words differently. A closer look at language could reveal the secret of life.

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Stories, like food, lose their flavor if cooked in a hurry.

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Written words can also sing.

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As long as one writes only for oneself, writing is a free act by means of which, to use an oxymoron, one secretly opens oneself.

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To write, you have to want something to survive you.

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It's true and it's easily said that language is material, and something does materialize as one writes.

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Many writers are radical. I am not, because of my age and because of my terrible fear of demagogy.

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I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their pens to serve the working people.

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A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

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