I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in love.

Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.