I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.

Journalism has been very important for me - for a long time I made my living as a journalist, and it also serves as a source of ideas. Many of the things I have written I would not have written without the experience of being a journalist.

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life.

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

I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.