For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.
I like writing historical fiction.
I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.
The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.
I am a regular writer in Mexico, and I always tell the truth in my writings.
Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of the ignorant and the bigoted - read everything you can get your hands on.
I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.
I read every one of the books on the shelf marked American Negro Literature. I became a nationalist, a colour nationalist, through the writings of men and women who lived a world away from me.