Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Fuentes
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  1. The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game .. . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can...
  2. Cristo quería a los justos, habitaba las buenas conciencias, pertenecía a los hombres de bien, a la gente decente, a las buenas reputaciones. ¡Que cargara el diablo con los humildes, con los pecadores, con los abandonados, con los rebeldes, con los miserables, con los que...
  3. I dalje verujem da Sunce izlazi svakoga dana i da svako novo Sunce najavljuje novi dan;dan koji je juče bio budućnost. I dalje verujem da će danaÅ¡nji dan, u trenutku zatvaranja jedne stranice vremena, obećati sutra — ranije nepredvidivo, kasnije neponovljivo
  4. One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
  5. Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.
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