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

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

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself

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

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

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.