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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.
We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them.
I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.
Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.
I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.
I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.
And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.
The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners.
I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.
People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.
The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.
I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.
Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars
Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.
Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.
I'm open to love, and I think that I will fall in love with a wonderful man.
What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing.
You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric.
There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.
Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
If I had to choose between a relative and a good story, I would take the story.
It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.
Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.
I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.
Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.