Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty. |
Feast of the Goat. It has been like a huge birthday present that this film based on one of my novels, one of the novels I worked hardest on to write, is released on the day of my birthday. |
If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know. |
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around. |
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections. |
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. |
Prosperity or egalitarianism / you have to choose. I favor freedom / you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion. |
Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary. |
There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity. |
they are defending the little power that they have left. |
Vicente Fox has a truly titanic task upon his shoulders because dismantling an authoritarian apparatus that has had a grip on power for 71 years means reforming the state practically from head to foot. |
What is happening in the country for such political, moral and cultural blindness to take hold? Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at play in these elections. |
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories. |
You cannot teach creativity -- how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be. |