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

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing to the adventure tales he read, he discovered a way to escape from the poor house, the poor country, and the poor reality in which he lived.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

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

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

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.