The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

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.

No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.