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

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

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

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

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

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other

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