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.

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

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 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

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana

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

I don't have any style.