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 have assiduously avoided calling my books novels

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

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

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity