I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book
I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.
Puns are a form of humor with words.
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader
I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
I don't have any style.
Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.
I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.
I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels
I am against the notion of style in itself
For me, words are just words, nothing else
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title
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