I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.
A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.
Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.
If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity
What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
I think all writing is done through memory
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
I am a writer of fragments.
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.
Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title
Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.
Puns are a form of humor with words.
I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me
I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread
I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.
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