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

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

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

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost

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

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that