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

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

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.

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

I don't have any style.