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

I am against the notion of style in itself

I don't have any style.

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

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.

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

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