There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing..

The United States still thinks that Mexico is a nineteenth century industrial society. It isn't that any longer, it has to adapt to a new reality. Bu….

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death..

I've lost audiences, I've recovered them..

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity..

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination..

I like fighting. I get into rows all the time..

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them..

The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel..

The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment..

Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic….

The Mexican revolution was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mex….

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word..

Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more..

In literature, you know only what you imagine.

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal..

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist..

Memory is satisfied desire..

In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first place to economic fundamentalism, w….

The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of te….

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we ….