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

Puns are a form of humor with words.

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

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

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