But I Do Not Have The Reader

I Think That Like All Writers - And If Any Writer Disagrees With This, Then He Is Not A Writer - I Write Primarily For Myself

For Me, Literature Is A Complex Game, Both Mental And Concrete, Which Is Acted Out In A Physical Manner On The Page.

Many Of My Books Have Begun With The Title, Because Naming A Work Already In Progress Makes No Sense To Me.

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