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

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

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Writers are not meant for action.

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

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