I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

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

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.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

For me, words are just words, nothing else