Writing and translating are part of the same miracle that is language—that which made us human. - Angélica Gorodischer

I believe all of us are constantly writing the text-that-is-the-world.

Of course, one never writes alone. One writes in the company of all one has read.

(about Argentina's government) But in all this there is an advantage: they have stolen everything from us — our money, our future, public education, work, everything except culture. And they can’t steal this from us because it doesn’t interest them. And it doesn’t interest them because they don’t understand what it’s about. But those of us who write or paint or sculpt or make movies, this is something that we do understand.