I try to catch pieces from the chaos of reality and shape them in the small and fake and necessary cosmos of fiction. - Ana María Shua

A good translation must bring to the reader not only the meaning of the text, but also to its music —its rhythms.

Variety is my device. Each of my texts must startle the reader one way or another. I think that is one of the tasks literature must accomplish: to never let the reader feel really confortable.

it doesn’t matter how short a short story is, it must contain a happening in time that alters the state of things. This is the only way to tell a story.