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

The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, there are these tests that have been written by multiple people.

We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them.

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.

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 knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

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.