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My Parents Were Founders Of The Cuban Communist Party, And I Grew Up Extremely Poor.

American Literature Had Always Considered Writing A Very Serious Matter

But I Do Not Have The Reader In Mind When I Write. No True Writer Does That

I Do Not Believe In Inspiration, But I Must Have A Title In Order To Work, Otherwise I Am Lost

For Me, Words Are Just Words, Nothing Else

I Am Against The Notion Of Style In Itself

I Have Assiduously Avoided Calling My Books Novels

Watching A Movie From Beginning To End Is Like Reading, Because Even Though What You See Are Images, They Are Telling You A Story

You Are Just In The Middle Of A Struggle With Words Which Are Really Very Stubborn Things, With A Blank Page, With The Damn Thing That You Use To Write With, A Pen Or A Typewriter, And You Forget All About The Reader When You Are Doing That

I Am The Only British Writer Who Writes In Spanish

I Describe My Works As Books, But My Publishers In Spain, In The United States, And Elsewhere Insist On Calling Them Novels

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