Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy.

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.

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.

But I don't want more things than I need, either.