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

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels

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.

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader