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Francisco Goldman Quotes.

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.
Francisco Goldman
You witness a lot as a journalist, and what you witness becomes a part of you.
Francisco Goldman
Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory.
Francisco Goldman
What’s important about me is that I really have, in ways I never could have foreseen when I was young, a writing career that’s reached a lot of different places.
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 of being human and of being Mexican, even if they don’t in any explicit way address these issues in their writing.
Francisco Goldman
When I see a blatant injustice, I can’t keep quiet. I’ve been that way since I was a little kid.
Francisco Goldman
The U.S., like any other country, allows tourists into its borders in order to make money off them, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Why give out tourist visas if you’re not going to let tourists be tourists?
Francisco Goldman
I think the fact that my wife died in Mexico City makes it very important to me; my life went up in smoke at that moment, the family and the future we were going to have. At that point, I was anchored to the city in a way I’ve never been anchored to a place before.
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
The writing that most interests me isn’t about narcos or sicarios or police or whatever. It’s about the victims and the survivors, and about the suffering and trauma that so many in Mexico and Central America endure, and that is all around us whether we notice it or not.
Francisco Goldman
‘Say Her Name’ was a book I never wanted to write and never expected to write. I wasn’t trying to do anything except write a book for Aura – a book that I thought I had to write.
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 and read. It’s true. I think if I were living in the US, I would just turn my television and radio off for a year right now, and just read.
Francisco Goldman