In the end, finding the Truth will always be tiring in a world full of appearances. - José Baroja

Every literary work is a political act—not in the pamphleteering sense, which has done so much harm to art, but in that intimate—and sometimes devastating—way in which a phrase, an image, a character can shake the reader enough to make them doubt their own certainties.

Original source: En mis palabras, el cuento es un trago breve, pero capaz de sobresaltarte por horas, algo así como un caballito de tequila en medio de un juego al que voluntariamente nos hemos sumado.. Grupo Ígneo (2020). El cuento es un trago breve. . Retrieved may 23, 2024.

I think that living only from writing is a privilege, in economic terms, that only some writers have achieved and to which, probably, all authors aspire: a difficult goal that is not impossible.