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

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story

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 don't have any style.

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

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

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.