Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Work is what saves you.
chaos: it has no plural.
I have no literary fears.
I'm a writer, not a genre.
Memory is satisfied desire.
Don't classify me, read me.
I need, therefore I imagine.
To read and write is a paradise.
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
I love having critics for breakfast.
The real bombs are my books, not me.
Writing is a struggle against silence.
I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.
In literature, you know only what you imagine
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
No government functions without the grease of corruption.
Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.
I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.