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.

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

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

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 have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.