I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.

Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread a text, you teach yourself something about craft.

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.

Write about what makes you different.