There Were Influences In My

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

I Don't Have Any Style.

I Am A Writer Of Fragments.

So I Do Not Consider Myself A Chronicler Of My Fatherland Or Even A Chronicler Of Havana

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