My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!