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

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

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips

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

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

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.