I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

I was a nerdy kid and I was writing and showing other fellows who are still my friends what I was writing. We were sharing that and kept sharing it. The experiences they had were so different than mine.

As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.

I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I have fathers and stepfathers and a lot of brothers and sisters and distant cousins and all that.

Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.