Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the 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

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself