As a rule, one should never place form over content.

I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

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