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

- Jaume Cabre

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

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

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

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

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

I read a lot of poetry. All types of poetry, but mostly Catalan poetry, because I believe poetry is the essence of language. Reading the classics, be…

- Jaume Cabre

I think that's true of real life - we don't ever know anyone completely. Secrets are very important to creating a narrative work that's believable. T…

- Jaume Cabre

For someone like you who's a British citizen this might seem strange. How can you ban a language? It turns out that you can. During the dictatorship …

- Jaume Cabre