If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels

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

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

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

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

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