“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”

“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. ”

“And don't give me the same old story:"We're in Mexico. Pray."You'd be better off taking a snake rattle.”

“Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.”

“Because it’s a fucking disaster to be creative when you know you’re not Mozart or Keats. Dammit, I got tired of scratching around in my past. There’s nothing in me to justify the pretension of creativity. This came before anything, before you, before Raquel, this is a matter of my own emptiness, my awareness of my own limits, maybe my sterility. Does what I’m saying to you seem awful? Now you want to come along and sell me an illusion, which I don’t believe in but which does make me believe that either you’re a fool or you underestimate my intelligence. Why don’t you just leave me alone, so I can fill the emptiness in my own way? Let me see things for myself, learn if something can still grow in my soul, an idea, a faith, because I swear to you, Laura, my soul is more desolate than this rock landscape you see here… why?”

“-Sí; ¿por qué te has de sacrificar así?-¿Quererla? Ella me quiere a mí. Ella me sacrifica por mí.- Pero es una mujer vieja, casi un cadáver; tu no puedes...- Ella tiene más vida que yo. Sí, es vieja, es repulsiva...Felipe, no quiero volver...no quiere ser como ella...otra...- Trata de enterrarte en vida. Tienes que renacer, Aura...- Hay que morir antes de renacer...No. No entiendes. Olvida, Felipe; ténme confianza.”

“I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public, I’m looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.”