Violence Represents The Worst Kind Of Conformism.

‎reading Good Literature Is An Experience Of Pleasure...but It Is Also An Experience Of Learning What And How We Are, In Our Human Integrity And Our Human Imperfection, With Our Actions, Our Dreams, And Our Ghosts, Alone And In Relationships That Link Us To Others, In Our Public Image And In The Secret Recesses Of Our Consciousness.

There Are Many Things Behind A Good Novel, But In Particular There Is A Lot Of Work - A Lot Of Patience, A Lot Of Stubbornness, And A Critical Spirit.

I Was Very Young And Lived With My Grandparents In A Villa With White Walls In The Calle Ocharan, In Miraflores.

I Always Write A Draft Version Of The Novel In Which I Try To Develop, Not The Story, Not The Plot, But The Possibilities Of The Plot. I Write Without Thinking Much, Trying To Overcome All Kinds Of Self-criticism, Without Stopping, Without Giving Any Consideration To The Style Or Structure Of The Novel, Only Putting Down On Paper Everything That Can Be Used As Raw Material, Very Crude Material For Later Development In The Story.

If You Are Killed Because You Are A Writer, That's The Maximum Expression Of Respect, You Know.