Carmen Boullosa
I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.Collection: Writing
Some people die, others just run out of fuel.Collection: Death
Women are allowed to enter the spaces of the senses, the space of the body, the spaces opened by sensations, all kinds of feelings, but women are not allowed to enter the spaces of reason to the same extent, that is to say the space of ideas, political ideas.Collection: Women
Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.Collection: Writing
I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.Collection: Angel
In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion that you are following the model of the creator, that you are playing the creator who has to organize that. It is a vice and a sin, and I like to sin. I'm a vicious person.Collection: Vices
The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.Collection: Names