Work is what saves you.

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.