I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

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

I am against the notion of style in itself

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

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

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.

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.