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

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

Writers are not meant for action.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

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

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