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

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

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

I don't have any style.

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.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.