The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful.

If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.

Don't be afraid to say what you don't know, and speak for what you do know. Say, "I can't speak for all Latinas, but I can speak for me and tell you very, very honestly."