People in the big rich countries are often extremely dismissive of the small countries. They think nothing that happens there is of any interest or t…

- Francisco Goldman

The Democrats are hardly agents of change, or even remotely interesting talkers or reality observers. The workings of actual power in the US is so re…

- Francisco Goldman

Donald Trump is an especially depressing phenomena because he is so debased and debasing and millions and millions of people want him to be president…

- Francisco Goldman

Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory.

- Francisco Goldman

Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or nonfiction has p…

- Francisco Goldman

There's a certain advantage to living in a small country like Guatemala, I think. You don't feel so distant from political reality there. When things…

- Francisco Goldman

I'm a little skeptical of so-called narco fiction, I have to say, though some writers I admire may have written some narco fiction. You feel the drea…

- Francisco Goldman

Someone wrote in the New York Times recently that if Donald Trump was allowed to go through with his plans, he'd become one of history's major human …

- Francisco Goldman

I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative energy in novel writin…

- Francisco Goldman