Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up

We have all the technology to record things in the streets. Now the historians cannot twist it or change it, because we have cellular phones or video cameras, and we are filming in the streets what's going on. We have the voices of everybody recorded. There's too much recording and I think that's wonderful.

Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

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.

Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.