When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story sh….

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging fe….

Writers speak for those who are kept in silence.

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.

After fifty most of the bullshit is gone..

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you..

I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust; I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was no….

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do ….

write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway..

Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally..

​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in….

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them..

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief..

But I don't want more things than I need, either..

Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur..

The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric..

My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels ….

...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars.

I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There'….

Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thought….

When my daughter Paula died, I was in the deepest pain, and my mother said, "This kind of sorrow is like a long, narrow, dark channel. You have to wa….