Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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.
I only understand realism.
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.