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

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

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've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but I am an American citizen and my books are published here, so I'm also an American writer.

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.