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You cannot bribe a Chilean police officer - I know this firsthand.

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I spent my whole life as a writer talking to just the average guy in Los Angeles and Latin America, talking to working people.

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Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

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I've never been on a paperback tour before, you know, because usually you go on tour when a hardcover comes out.

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I think, as journalists, we sometimes are afraid to enter into the emotional lives and the complications of the lives of the people we write about - we don't really have the space and the room to deal with those things. But as a novelist, that's precisely what you're writing about.

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I think even a hero is someone who has sort of the flaw or imperfection of character. I remember Alice Walker saying that once - she'd written a novel about a civil rights hero, and it was someone who had this flaw, this central flaw.

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I come from a family of working people. My parents were Guatemalan immigrants who spent most of their lives in the service industry.

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As a professional journalist, I've been interviewing people for almost thirty years. And the one thing I've learned from all those interviews is that I am always going to be surprised.

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My job is to listen and to ask questions and to be respectful and win the trust of my subjects so that I can work my way into their memories and their point of view.

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The influence of cinema on all contemporary writers is undeniable. Because film is such a powerful and popular art form, we prose writers think cinematically.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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