You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and th….

I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good n….

Literature is about getting in touch. It sounds so hippie, but it really is about sharing stuff. We are a community that doesn't seem to be important….

I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I have fathers and stepfathers and ….

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are..

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always e….

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it..

Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something..

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write ….

The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, the….

I was going to be a memory when I grew up..

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing..

Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us, and we want to belong to it or we don'….

The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn a logical wa….

Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say it's like giving birth ….

I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think..

If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this….

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time..

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do..

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it..

We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them..