Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

I'm a writer, not a genre.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

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.