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.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book

Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

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.