What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other

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

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.

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.

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

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

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