I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.

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.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

Everyone is born with some special talent.

This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy; they need justice.