Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the Bolshevik mentality according to which an author in general, and an eminent author in particular, is always guilty, and must be punished accordingly.

I am a Bolshevik.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.

For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.

I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.