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

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

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

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

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 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

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