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

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

I am a writer of fragments.

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.

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.