I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.

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

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

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 do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.