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

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

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

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

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