When I Write, The First Blank Page,

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

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

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

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