Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.

She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.

I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.