Each year, in this world, several languages do die out. There are certain languages that have their survival assured for many years, such as English,…

- Jaume Cabre

Research is necessary. However, you need to make sure you don't fall into its trap. You need to have time left for writing. To avoid the trap, I just…

- Jaume Cabre

What I strive to do is make my characters seem like real people so that the reader experiences them as people - that's something I've been working on…

- Jaume Cabre

Everywhere you go you find readers who are interested, even though the story takes place here in this very neighborhood. It doesn't matter that it ta…

- Jaume Cabre

I take all my characters very seriously - the main, secondary, and supporting characters. Even if they only appear once, they still need to have thei…

- Jaume Cabre

There were many books in my parents' home. I'm from a family of five children and we were all readers. And so by the time I left home, I had already …

- Jaume Cabre

I'm interested in how memory and power come together in evil. These are obsessions of mine that appear throughout, like the theme of music. I know at…

- Jaume Cabre

The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time.

- Jaume Cabre

The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come to understand th…

- Jaume Cabre