I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost

I think all writing is done through memory

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

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

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.