Felipe González

“A writer has to be stubborn with the system.”

“I’m not interested in moralizing… I’m interested in creating tension in the reader.”

“One writes from what one lives, but also from what hurts.”

“In the face of Donald Trump, the Latin American right chose obedience over dignity.”

“…resignation is like the rain in Mexico City, sometimes sad, arbitrary and inopportune.”

“A frightened society still recognizes the existence of the problem; an adapted society begins to incorporate it as part of normality.”

“There will remain the trace of Trump and right-wing policies: warped decisions, brutal words, and the habit of treating human dignity as a nuisance.”

“The UN’s silence in the face of Trump is the final stone in its own grave.”

“The right does not deny the disappeared detainees: it manages them as silence. For them, they are not absent bodies but obstacles already overcome; and upon that well-ordered grave they build their idea of a country.”

“Probably, the eccentricities of those who visited the establishment meant nothing to him, especially if they were accompanied by a generous tip.”

“I never feel like a text is completely finished. Over and over again I reread it, preferably out loud, until a certain tiredness leads me to send it to the editor, who will decide whether it is published or not.”

“We longed to be in the middle of some neophyte gaze of some library entity, of someone rediscovering paper.”

“The resignation it looks like rain and that explains why the rain can bring resignation.”

“Without money there is no lasting imagination in this city!”

“In democracy, wishing bad for an incoming government is like buying a gun, buying the bullets, loading it and wishing to be killed with it: sovereign dogmatic stupidity.”

“…we transform the sublime into an onion to remain unread.”

“The person on foot realizes that there is no misery in cities like Madrid or Barcelona, ​​first world cities that, I think, have lost the heart that Latin Americans still have.”

“Good literature should disturb the status quo, not preach.”

“Proud to be a "damn South American" and not a "suck-up" to the United States.”