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

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

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

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.

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