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

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

I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

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

I am a writer of fragments.