He says writing the first paragraph is the most difficult part of writing a novel, and that he would take as much as several hours to write a single paragraph back then. Yet, he effortlessly comes up with sentences that could very well be the beginning of ridiculously beaultiful stories, such as:
"It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there’s not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination."
"It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there’s not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination."