Life Quote by 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 novel that…

— Francisco Goldman

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

“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

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

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

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 US is…

— Francisco Goldman

“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

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

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

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

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