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

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

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

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader

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.

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

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