Quotes from Luisa Valenzuela

I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.

Me parece que la duda y la incertidumbre son mucho más importantes que el tener razón.

In a world of beings who don't exist, who self-destruct and erase themselves, perhaps one should make a valiant effort to at least draw oneself. Maybe that's where all the sex comes from- to feel real.

The act of writing and the act of love… are one and the same. Equivalent enquiry, similar search.

Because fear called her by her name. (Her own name, not fear's name. Fear doesn't have a name; it's just the steady beat underneath a smile.)

I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.