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In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

It would be very ungrateful of me to turn my back or stop doing work in Latin America.

I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

I am so proud of my heritage and of being Latina. I would most definitely consider roles in Latin America.

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.