Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself

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.

I think all writing is done through memory

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

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