"I am dead, my king," I wrote to you, meaning that defeat had overtaken me, even before the battle at Actium. "I am de…"

"Everything was bound to change, I realized, when I started to imagine and couldn't stop imagining that the virulent o…"

"if the novel has a power, it’s to touch that consciousness behind words, or before words. There is a kind of poet tha…"

"They [novels] are a vice. It’s a vice so big that I cannot keep it hidden. I love to tell stories. I love to tell sto…"

"If we don’t fight for spaces of tolerance and civility, Mexico could become a doomed country, marked by intolerance a…"

"The experience of love led me to poetry—I fell in love and I discovered what had been missing from my poems—; friends…"

"Women are not entirely excluded from public life and positions of power, but there is still a lot of work to be done …"

"I never feel that I have to be true to history: I have to be true to my story, so that it holds up. My novels use his…"

"After reading documents and historical treatises, I began to write the novel, and this, for me, is a craft not unlike…"

"A visit to the Mexican literary world recalls Dante’s procession through the inferno. I don’t want to point the finge…"