I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

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

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

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 believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.