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"Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed."
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"Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing."

"Hope strengthens desire and love strengthens confidence."

"Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you think you can bear to give it," he instructed before I began to write, "because you won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope."
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"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."

"Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing."

"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."

"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."

"I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious."

"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."

"If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious."

"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."

"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."
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