There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

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

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

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.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.