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

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story

I am against the notion of style in itself

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

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

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels