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

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

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.