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

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

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

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

For me, words are just words, nothing else

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.