I am against the notion of style in itself

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

A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England

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