Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy..

The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me back through several incarnations.….

People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They come here. If you ….

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile..

What is truer than truth? Answer: the story..

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it s….

I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no f….

Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything th….

Women age more in company because they have more relationships. Men have buddies. They have acquaintances, they have comrades. Friends as women have,….

I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a mag….

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when p….

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged..

More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a different moment. We are now r….

The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shad….

I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen..

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband..

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it..

I think I was a feminist before the word was invented..

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions..

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to….

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour..