There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

There are people with a lot of prejudice, a lot of fear of the unknown. They think that immigration is a danger, when really it is a solution. This is an interesting issue, because it will be a central question of our time.

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.

I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.