writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment, but a way to act.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth that invariably appears in great literature: that men and women of all nations and places are essentially equal, and only injustice sows among them discrimination, fear, and exploitation.

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

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