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

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

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

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

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

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England