Tobacco Is The Opiate Of The Gentleman,

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.

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

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.

I Don't Much Believe In The Idea Of Characters. I Write With Words, That Is All. Whether Those Words Are Put In The Mouth Of This Or That Character Does Not Matter To Me

What I Do Believe Is That There Is Always A Relationship Between Writing And Reading, A Constant Interplay Between The Writer On The One Hand And The Reader On The Other