Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

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

No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.

Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.

In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.