I Have No Literary Fears.

I Have Two Children Who Died Before Reaching 30, So Who Am I To Complain About Being Alive?

Literature Overtakes History, For Literature Gives You More Than One Life. It Expands Experience And Opens New Opportunities To Readers.

Reading, Writing, Teaching, Learning, Are All Activities Aimed At Introducing Civilizations To Each Other.

The United States Has Written The White History Of The United States. It Now Needs To Write The Black, Latino, Indian, Asian And Caribbean History Of The United States.

Most Writers In Mexico Have Had Posts As Ambassadors, Secretaries - That Is No Longer The Case. Now A Writer Can Live Off Writing. He Has An Audience: There Are Publishing Houses, There Are Newspapers - So The Situation Is Not As Terrible As It Used To Be When There Were No Means And He Had To Go Into Government Service, Be An Ambassador Or A Cabinet Minister, Etc. So, Things Are Changing In The Sense That The Civil Society Is Now The Protagonist. The Writer Therefore Occupies A Different Position, But No Less Influential Than In The Past, In A New, Democratic Society.