• I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.

    Ismail Kadaré: I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.
    "Ismail Kadare, The Art of Fiction No. 153". Interview with Shusha Guppy, www.theparisreview.org. 1998.
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