Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
In literature, you know only what you imagine
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.
I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay
Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.
You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it.