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

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

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

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.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish