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 can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

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.

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

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.

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.