I Have No Literary Fears.

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.

I Always Felt A Little Worm Inside Me: 'now You Need To Write A Novel With A Woman Protagonist.

Cuba Needs A Dose Of Perestroika.

The United States Has Written The White History Of The United States. It Now Needs To Write The Black, Latino, Indian, Asian And Caribbean History Of The United States.

The Mexican Revolution Was A Break With The Past To Recover The Past. We Were Trying To Deny We Had An Indian And A Black And A Spanish Past. The Mexican Revolution Accepted All Heritages. It Allowed Mexico To Be Mestizo.