I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me

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.

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

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

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish