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

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.

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.

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

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space.