I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say it's like giving birth because I haven't given birth. It's more like when your children leave home.