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 all writing is done through memory

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.

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

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

I am against the notion of style in itself