Writing Fiction Is The Best

Like Writing, Reading Is A Protest Against The Insufficiencies Of Life.

That Is One Thing I Am Sure Of Amid My Many Uncertainties Regarding The Literary Vocation: Deep Inside, A Writer Feels That Writing Is The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Him, Or Could Ever Happen To Him, Because As Far As He Is Concerned, Writing Is The Best Possible Way Of Life, Never Mind The Social, Political, Or Financial Rewards Of What He Might Achieve Through It.

I Was Very Young And Lived With My Grandparents In A Villa With White Walls In The Calle Ocharan, In Miraflores.

We Were Trained As Writers With The Idea That Literature Is Something That Can Change Reality, That It's Not Just A Very Sophisticated Entertainment, But A Way To Act.

Men Do Not Live By Truth Alone; They Also Need Lies: Those That They Invent Freely, Not Those That Are Imposed On Them; Those That Appear As They Are, Not Smuggled In Beneath The Clothes Of History. Fiction Enriches Their Existence, Completes Them And, Fleetingly, Compensates Them For This Tragic Condition Which Is Our Lot: Always To Desire And Dream More Than We Can Actually Achieve.