I love to play with words and meanings and to make somersaults with them. In the encounter with my fictions, I would like my readers to experience mo… - Ana María Shua

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.

What is literature? How can you explain it? Why do writers write? Why do readers read? It is not enough to know. We want to understand. If knowing and knowledge were our main and only concern, art would have never come to exist. We would have science and maybe journalism… But we are not satisfied with simple information about what happened. We need more than an anecdote. We need a story that gives shape and meaning to the confusing chaos of life. Our minds need an order that does not exist in real life.

I was proud of our cultural level in Argentina. It was our way of breathing and resistance and suddenly we were forced to avoid reality by choosing every word with concern.