I think all writing is done through memory

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.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

I think all writing is done through memory

A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.