Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.
I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.
My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.
When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.