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

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

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

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.