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Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.

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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.

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Work is what saves you.

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There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

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I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.

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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

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I love having critics for breakfast.

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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

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The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

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The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

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The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.

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Don't classify me, read me.

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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

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The real bombs are my books, not me.

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I'm a writer, not a genre.

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