Francisco Goldman

I don't impose political responsibilities on my fiction. The last thing I would ever want to do, for example, is write a…

— Francisco Goldman

What I see of the US Presidential elections from down here makes me want to disengage from that particular reality and just…

— Francisco Goldman

“Hold her tight, if you have her; hold her tight, I thought, that's my advice to all the living. Breathe her in,…

— Francisco Goldman

Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or…

— Francisco Goldman

Maybe Pope Francis will say something on his visit to the US, maybe he'll rebuke Donald Trump and anti-immigrant racism and demagoguery…

— Francisco Goldman

Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory.

— Francisco Goldman

The Democrats are hardly agents of change, or even remotely interesting talkers or reality observers. The workings of actual power in the…

— Francisco Goldman

“I can go years thinking that it seems impossible that I will ever satisfy that appetite again and then it is easy…

— Francisco Goldman

Narco fiction novels have a reputation, at least here in Mexico among some of the writers I know, of being somewhat rushed…

— Francisco Goldman

There's a certain advantage to living in a small country like Guatemala, I think. You don't feel so distant from political reality…

— Francisco Goldman

I'm a little skeptical of so-called narco fiction, I have to say, though some writers I admire may have written some narco…

— Francisco Goldman

I've written one book-length piece of journalism. The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? That book had an impact. Eight…

— Francisco Goldman

People in the big rich countries are often extremely dismissive of the small countries. They think nothing that happens there is of…

— Francisco Goldman

Someone wrote in the New York Times recently that if Donald Trump was allowed to go through with his plans, he'd become…

— Francisco Goldman

Donald Trump is seriously dark and disturbing. You can't just dismiss it as one more example of American pop culture grotesque.

— Francisco Goldman

I'm specifically referring to this certain feeling of sadness, fear, and helplessness that descended on me at the Mexico City protest a…

— Francisco Goldman

I feel a responsibility, as I get older, to be responsible to what I've experienced, to what I've lived and been in…

— Francisco Goldman

Mexico just needs more journalists, and especially more good places to publish and exhibit. There are all kinds of censorship practiced in…

— Francisco Goldman

“You always felt destined for stardom of one kind or another. But the fear that maybe that wasn't true wouldn't leave you…

— Francisco Goldman

The writing that most interests me isn't about narcos or sicarios or police or whatever. It's about the victims and the survivors,…

— Francisco Goldman

“My father used to munch on whole onions as if they were apples, I'd told her once. I thought of it as…

— Francisco Goldman

I'm not a Mexican writer, but I think everything that happens in Mexico affects the Mexican writers I know, in their sense…

— Francisco Goldman

“ONE AFTERNOON DURING THAT FINAL SPRING, AFTER SHE HAD TURNED THIRTY AURA TURNED TO ME FROM HER DESK WHILE I LAY ON…

— Francisco Goldman

Donald Trump is an especially depressing phenomena because he is so debased and debasing and millions and millions of people want him…

— Francisco Goldman

I don't ever think about the utility of fiction. I don't believe in it or certainly don't require anybody to consider it.…

— Francisco Goldman