I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative energy in novel writing, obviously, comes from tension. From trying to fuse. From trying to make coherent disparate… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
I don't impose political responsibilities on my fiction. The last thing I would ever want to do, for example, is write a novel that… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
What I see of the US Presidential elections from down here makes me want to disengage from that particular reality and just hole up… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
“Hold her tight, if you have her; hold her tight, I thought, that's my advice to all the living. Breathe her in, put your… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or nonfiction has… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
Maybe Pope Francis will say something on his visit to the US, maybe he'll rebuke Donald Trump and anti-immigrant racism and demagoguery beautifully, in… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
The Democrats are hardly agents of change, or even remotely interesting talkers or reality observers. The workings of actual power in the US is… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
“I can go years thinking that it seems impossible that I will ever satisfy that appetite again and then it is easy to satisfy… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
Narco fiction novels have a reputation, at least here in Mexico among some of the writers I know, of being somewhat rushed productions, usually… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
There's a certain advantage to living in a small country like Guatemala, I think. You don't feel so distant from political reality there. When… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
I'm a little skeptical of so-called narco fiction, I have to say, though some writers I admire may have written some narco fiction. You… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
I've written one book-length piece of journalism. The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? That book had an impact. Eight years after… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
People in the big rich countries are often extremely dismissive of the small countries. They think nothing that happens there is of any interest… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
Someone wrote in the New York Times recently that if Donald Trump was allowed to go through with his plans, he'd become one of… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is seriously dark and disturbing. You can't just dismiss it as one more example of American pop culture grotesque. — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
