"The crucial task of the writer here is to remember, to try to remember. Not that we should all literally note down fa…"

"Memory here is always the protagonist: We Must Remember. We Must Forget. We Must Pardon So We Can Forget. We Must For…"

"We must remember who they are and what they did. Because the future grows out of the past, we must stay alert."

"when I abandoned SF, I didn’t abandon Balzac or Borges or Cervantes, but I added the people that interest me: the wom…"

"I am not an academic, nor a teacher, nor a B.A., nor a doctor, nothing. I am a writer of narrative and that’s how I h…"

"People are the same everywhere, in Buenos Aires, in Ulan Bator, in Paris, in Roldán, in Toronto, etc. People always w…"

"As Borges, the Master, said: “When I heard Funes speak, then I had the story.” One has to let the character speak."

"Writing and translating are part of the same miracle that is language—that which made us human."

"I’ve written about all kinds of things and every one of my books is very different from the others, which delights me…"

"Of course, one never writes alone. One writes in the company of all one has read."