That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.

I am against the notion of style in itself

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

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

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

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

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