“Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.”
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
