At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you . . . the only choices we have in life are either the impairment of old age or early …

- Rosa Montero

The truth about being a writer is you do not choose the stories you tell, but stories choose you. You do not choose, therefore, characters either. No…

- Rosa Montero

The art path leads you to be increasingly free. And what does "because of being increasingly free" mean? Julio Ramón Ribeyro used to say a mature nov…

- Rosa Montero

The more readings a novel has, even contradictory, the better. In journalism, you talk about what you know; you have provided yourself with records, …

- Rosa Montero

It's true that a human being cannot control what happens to him. However, what we can control is how we respond to what happens to us, what we do wit…

- Rosa Montero

The flesh is what traps us, because no one has ever chosen his or her body to live in, has he? It's the flesh that makes us sick, that makes us old a…

- Rosa Montero

One of the things that troubles me the most in life, that upsets all of us, is that we reach this world with the capability to be anything. But then …

- Rosa Montero

For me, fiction belongs to my inner being, is something essential which defines me - I am a fiction writer in the same way I am a woman, the same way…

- Rosa Montero

Reality and fiction are really mixed up. The frontier between reality and fiction is tremendously porous and slippery. And in fact, when I remember s…

- Rosa Montero