Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black herita...
Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you...
Writing is a struggle against silence.
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 am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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.
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Norman Mailer dice que los celos son una galería de retratos en que el celoso es el curador del museo.
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 wh...
Toti formam triunghiuri, i-am zis. O pereche e doar un triunghi incomplet, un unghi solitar, o figura trunchiata. Norman Mailer a scris ca perechea moderna e formata dintr-un barbat, o femeie si un ps...
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...