When I Write, The First Blank Page,

Puns Are A Form Of Humor With Words.

I Have Assiduously Avoided Calling My Books Novels

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

I Believe That Writers, Unless They Consider Themselves Terribly Exquisite, Are At Heart People Who Live By Night, A Little Bit Outside Society, Moving Between Delinquency And Conformity

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.