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Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.

I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world.

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.

Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.

I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories.