I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

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

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.