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

I think all writing is done through memory

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.

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

For me, words are just words, nothing else

I don't have any style.

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.