I Was Never A True Journalist, I

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.

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 Think That I've Tried Many Times To Get Cuba In My Writings, Especially Havana, Which Was Once A Great And Fascinating City.

I First Came Out Against Castro In June 1968, Fifteen Months After My Book Had Been Published, And You Cannot Imagine How Quickly A Void Was Created Around Me

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