I am a writer of fragments.
From Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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 have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.
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.
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
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