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.

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.

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

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

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