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.
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
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.
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
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread
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.
I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
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
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself
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
For me, words are just words, nothing else
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story
I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish
