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

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself

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 first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me

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

I don't have any style.