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

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.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

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

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

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.