A Good Smoker, Like A Good Lover,

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

Cigars Must Be Smoked One At A Time, Peaceably, With All The Leisure In The World. Cigarettes Are Of The Instant, Cigars Are For Eternity.

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.

Writing For Me, Even What You Call Serious Writing, Is Play.