I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.