If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other

I am against the notion of style in itself

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me

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

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

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