I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.

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

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

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.