Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door.

There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and I'm going to come to them.

When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."

I can't hang around with lots of people these days because I am hypersensitive. So when I am around a lot of people or a big roomful of people I get almost autistic. I get overwhelmed and really tired. So I don't like being around large groups.

I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.

We women shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.

Spanish is a poetic language, in particular the Spanish of Mexico which has a wonderful animistic attitude you might not see in the Spanish of the peninsula. I think it has to do with the indigenous way of looking at nature.