I use not only my reason, my knowledge. I use also very much my emotions, my instincts, my ghosts, all these irrational part of the personality. I think this part of the personality has a very important role in the creation of a fiction.

I do a lot of research. A lot of research, but not in the -- in the way that an historian or a sociologist, a social scientist, will do.

I talk with people.I interview people.

I do a lot of investigation in libraries

 Mario Vargas Llosa