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

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

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.

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story

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

I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book