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.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

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

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

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

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