I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.

Life was good, one had only to live it.

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.