No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
Puns are a form of humor with words.
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.
I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.
I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.
I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course.
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.
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.
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.
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.
I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.
