I feel a responsibility, as I get older, to be responsible to what I've experienced, to what I've lived and been in a position to witness. I realize now that as a consequence of having lived the life I have, quite apart from the one, as I understand it, lived by most American writers, maybe I now know some things and have some stories to tell that others don't know about or wouldn't be able to tell. Maybe there's an intrinsic value in that lived experience and knowledge, though of course what you do with it is everything.
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
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory. - Francisco Goldman
Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory.
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
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…
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
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…
What I see of the US Presidential elections from down here makes me want to disengage from that particular reality and just hole up and read. It's tr… - Francisco Goldman
What I see of the US Presidential elections from down here makes me want to disengage from that particular reality and just hole up and read. It's tr…
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
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…
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