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

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.

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.

I think all writing is done through memory

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

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.

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